Social care leaders

News, practice and comment for social work and social care senior managers

Children, Workforce

Somerset sacks highest paid DCS because improvements are not fast enough

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Workforce

Media bashing of highly paid directors masks the true problems around appointing interim social care managers

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Adults, Workforce

Adass: ‘There’s always more that can be done to understand social work pressures’

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Workforce

Chief social workers are “punching above their weight,” says adults’ chief

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Children, Workforce

Pickles calls payments to interim DCS an “outrageous use of public money”

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

Half of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards cases breaching legal timescales

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

Six ways councils are trying to combat a shortage of best interests assessors

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

The best interests assessor: ‘We need the resources to make this massively positive Dols ruling a reality’

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Adults, Deprivation of liberty, Mental Health, Workforce

A lawyer’s view on the legal risks to councils from breaching Dols case timescales

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

‘The Supreme Court Dols ruling was right but an impossible workload is diluting advocacy’

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Adults, Workforce

Social workers outline Care Act learning and development needs

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Adults, Workforce

Details of integrated health and social care personal budgets scheme revealed

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Adults, Workforce

Make social care free at point of use for critical needs, says commission

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Workforce

Why councils should embrace social care’s temporary worker revolution

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Mental Health, Workforce

Podcast: A crash course for social workers on changes to the Mental Health Act code of practice

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Adults, Workforce

The danger of a ‘tell me what I want to hear’ culture in social services

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