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Workforce

Would you work for an ‘inadequate’ service?

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Children, Social work leaders

Sevenfold increase in number of children placed in unregistered homes over past three years

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Crackdown on excessive profits’ pledged as government unveils children’s social care reforms

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Community Care, Workforce Insights

Podcast: would you work for an inadequate-rated service?

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to child victims of domestic abuse

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Compass dial pointing to word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders

No plans to scrap single-word ratings for adults’ services, says government

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Janet Daby

Children, Social work leaders

Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister

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Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted to scrap single-word judgments of social care services

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders

‘Worrying’ number of children wrongly placed in supported accommodation, says Ofsted chief

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Number of children’s homes up 44% since 2020 as fostering sector shrinks

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Consistently high standards’ of social work earns Cafcass across-the-board outstanding rating

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Swindon social workers on strike

Workforce

Third group of social workers to strike at council

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Word blocks spelling out 'outsourcing' being changed to 'insourcing'

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s trust to be disbanded as council takes services back in-house

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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Teenager looking upset

Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to serious youth violence

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Social worker doing direct work with child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Ofsted and BASW raise safeguarding concerns over allowing non-social workers to hold child in need cases

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