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asylum

Community Care, Workforce Insights

How specialist refugee teams benefit young people and social workers

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investigations

Children, Social work leaders

Home Office age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

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Asylum-seeking child

Children

Councils offered £15,000 to take in unaccompanied children from Kent

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The word 'recruit' spelt out

Children, Workforce

Home Office has doubled social worker numbers in its age assessment service over past year

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Young boy looking pensive against backdrop of other young people

Children, Social work leaders

Kent ‘extremely close to capacity’ to care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

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Workforce

Podcast: the refugee who became social worker of the year

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(L-R) Headline Sponsor Sanctuary Personnel CEO James Rook, Omaid Badar, Broadcaster and journalist Ashley John-Baptiste. (credit: Social Work Awards)

Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

From refugee to social worker of the year: Omaid Badar’s story

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John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Workforce

Social work monopoly on asylum age assessments should end, says sector leader

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Asylum-seeking child

Children, Social work leaders

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Government urges councils to take in unaccompanied children after court rules hotel placements unlawful

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Royal Courts of Justice

Children, Social work leaders

Home Office placing asylum-seeking children in hotels unlawfully, rules High Court

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John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Social work leaders

Age assessment demands on social workers must be reduced, says ADCS president

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The word 'recruit' spelt out

Children, Workforce

Home Office has recruited just 40% of social workers needed for asylum body

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Picture of a man reading his newspaper with the logo 'Social Work Recap' on top

Adults, Children, Workforce

Unaccompanied children in hotels are councils’ responsibility – judge

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Asylum bill passes first hurdle as commissioner issues stark warning over safeguarding of children

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Image of Ruth Allen, the Bristish Association of Social Workers chief executive (credit: BASW)

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

BASW urges social workers not to take jobs with Home Office age assessment body

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