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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Care Act will increase legal burdens on social workers, warn directors

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

How one council hopes a dedicated Dols team can help manage surge in cases

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

The Care Act’s reforms to social care funding: key issues that need resolving

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Adults, Workforce

Government must be prepared to increase Care Act funding, warn council chiefs

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Court unveils plans to ‘fast track’ deprivation of liberty cases

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Adults, Workforce

Government announces £175m to meet cost of Care Act assessment burden

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Blair McPherson

Adults, Workforce

‘Don’t be too cynical about your senior managers; some of them have integrity’

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Workforce

Former social work reform chief Moira Gibb appointed head of merged skills body

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Workforce

A question of social work: panelists debate dilemmas facing the profession

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Workforce

‘Social work is a human rights discipline’: IFSW president speaks up for the profession

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Adults, Workforce

Social workers have found shift from local authority to social enterprise ‘liberating’, finds review

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Workforce

Government adviser urges more government support for social worker-led services

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Adults, Workforce

Government must rethink ‘unrealistic’ Care Act implementation timetable, MPs warn

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Children, Workforce

BASW backs “amnesty” for whistleblowers on child abuse following inquiry announcement

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Adults, Workforce

Number of social services clients down by 29% in five years

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Bill Mumford

Adults, Workforce

Head of Winterbourne improvement programme steps down over safeguarding probe

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