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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Massive’ cut in care population is key success measure for DfE reforms, says chief social worker

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Regulator urges TV industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts social work

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of bullying and disciplinaries – study

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Non-statutory placements make up over half of provision for students in Scotland, report reveals

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‘Even though you’re not here anymore, you still influence my passion for social work’

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Social workers expecting ‘significant cuts’ to social care funding over coming year

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

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Workforce

AMHPs to stage walkout as social work strike action hits sixth council within a year

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Social work in Wales: how student numbers have grown following bursary boost

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Fitness to practise delays set to rise further due to Social Work England budget pressures

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UNISON vice president Julia Mwaluke on the picket line with Barnet UNISON strikers

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Social workers to take nine more weeks of strike action as talks fail to resolve dispute

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils urged to test social work early career framework

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Adults, Workforce

Care home nursing fee gets 7.4% boost in ‘win for sector’

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Is unions’ 2024-25 pay claim for social workers up to scratch??

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Social work leaders, Workforce

‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

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