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    Workforce

    Happy World Social Work Day 2025!

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    CQC sets out lessons from first tranche of local authority adults’ services assessments

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders

    An update on the Mental Health Bill’s passage through Parliament

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    A care worker or nurse helping an older woman through an arm exercise, while both are sitting on a sofa in a living room

    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    ‘How reablement can better support independence and quality of life’

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    Future of Social Work, Workforce

    Social workers urged to share experience of using AI in practice

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Lack of staff and beds leading to ‘harmful’ gaps in mental healthcare, warns CQC

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    Care worker putting a bandage on a man's arm in his home.

    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Government curbs overseas recruitment with providers required to prioritise staff already in England

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    Workforce

    ‘My manager has gone above and beyond for me’

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    ‘Equipping social workers to meet 21st century challenges relating to death and dying’

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    Workforce

    How conscious are social workers about their safety during visits?

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    Children, Social work leaders

    ‘Sea change’ needed in approach to race in safeguarding practice, says national panel

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Corporate parenting duty to be placed on government departments and public bodies

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    Children

    ‘What I wish I had known about building trusting relationships with children’

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Number of children on protection plans for CSA at 30-year low, experts warn

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    Workforce

    Social worker registration fee rise approved by Scottish Government

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