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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Children, Workforce

Families missing out on social work support because early help staff given overly complex cases – report

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Children, Social work leaders

Rising children’s social care costs deepening councils’ financial woes, finds study

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Children, Social work leaders

Child protection enquiry total hits new annual high but proportion finding abuse continues to shrink

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Half of councils given funding to recruit 461 social work apprentices to bolster children’s workforce

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE ditches plan to cap agency social worker pay to equivalent for permanent staff

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Children, Social work leaders

Statutory duty to support birth parents needed to tackle repeat removals of children, says charity

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Children, Social work leaders

Review into ‘complex and fragmented’ social care laws for disabled children begins

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social work rules: ‘hugely frustrating’ delay to DfE consultation response

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Employers chosen to design and test social work early career framework

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Children, Social work leaders

Family group conferencing good practice must not be diluted in rollout, experts warn

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Children

Working with children experiencing neglect: challenges and solutions

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Children, Workforce

DfE sets up group to tackle social worker workloads

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Social work leaders, Workforce

‘There is no justification for agency and permanent social workers having very different pay’

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