Tag Archives | Star Hobson

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Children, Social work leaders

Practitioners ‘will not get into trouble’ for sharing information to protect children, says data watchdog

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection social workers to be piloted in DfE care review response

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth cabinet minister of 2022 while facing significant policy shake-up

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Brendan Clarke-Smith

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Minister: ‘national scandal that social workers are overlooked for doing jobs so well’

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Children, Social work leaders

Lower caseloads – not expert units or staff – best way to improve safeguarding, say social workers

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Star Hobson

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Star Hobson: ‘turmoil’ in council led to practice failings in toddler’s case, finds review

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Annie Hudson, chair, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Arthur and Star cases show need for expert child protection units, finds review

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Why only specialist child protection teams will tackle the annual child death toll’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner

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Children, Social work leaders

Council cedes control of children’s services

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Children

The tragic deaths of Arthur and Star must lead to a more humane and supportive social care for families

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

Children

National review of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes murder to recommend changes by May 2022

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Star Hobson

Children

Star Hobson: Safeguarding partnership regrets failure to act after toddler killed by mother’s partner

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