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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Do social workers feel valued by senior management?

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The pros and cons of being a young social worker

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Adults, Workforce

Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Pay now top motivator for social workers to change jobs

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Workforce

Pay deal to go through in Scotland as UNISON members give assent

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Inform Adults, Inform Children, Workforce

How CC Inform can boost your CPD and help you stay in social work

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November 30 written on a calendar to remind you an important appointment.

Social work leaders, Workforce

More than half of social workers still to renew two weeks out from 30 November deadline

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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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Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

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Will social workers fight or accept next year’s pay offer from councils?

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Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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Gestation, Gyration: a child’s turbulent entry into the world

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Does discrimination play a role in fitness to practise processes?

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

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Workforce

Ask the expert: How do I move from children’s social work to adults’?

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