Tag Archives | recruitment and retention

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce
Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

Social work leaders, Workforce
Number of UK social worker job postings falls for fourth consecutive month, figures show

City council latest to face social worker strike over pay inequalities between adults’ and children’s staff

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Fund return to social work scheme and boost admin support to tackle vacancies, LGA urges government

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Social work leaders, Workforce
Almost half of social workers in Wales likely to quit profession over next five years, finds survey

Social work leaders, Workforce
‘There is no justification for agency and permanent social workers having very different pay’

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Social work’s public image ‘pushing people out of frontline roles and making families distrustful’
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Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study
Pay now top motivator for social workers to change jobs
Councils breaching guidance by not taking homeless teenagers into care, suggests Children’s Commissioner
Pay deal to go through in Scotland as UNISON members give assent