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Adults, Workforce

Social work across the decades: how the disability movement reshaped social care

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Pictured: (left) Pat Curtis smiling in a yellow cardigan and a blue dress with dots and Nicola Silk (right) in a pink dress with matching pink hair. Both are holding a drink and are seated on a boat in the sea.

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‘In memory of Pat, my social work mentor and inspiration’

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Social work bursary delay risks excluding disadvantaged applicants from courses, academics warn

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What do social workers read in their spare time?

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Strike action looms as unions reject revised local government pay offer in Scotland

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Local government pay: UNISON to ballot members on strike action

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Adults, Workforce

Overseas recruitment drives latest growth in adult social care workforce

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Adults, Workforce

Delay ‘unfunded’ cap on care costs, council body urges government

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Local government pay offer revised in Scotland after staff back strike action

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How aware are social workers of their power over people?

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King Charles delivering the 2023 King's Speech in Parliament

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Law to bolster child protection announced in Labour’s first King’s Speech

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England issues guidance on new AMHP training standards

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Social workers on strike in Barnet

Adults, Workforce

Mental health social workers return to work after nine-week strike

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Andy Smith, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, 2024-25

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social worker numbers coming down in children’s services, says ADCS president

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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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