African American Senior man with dementia playing with wooden blocks in geriatric clinic or nursing home

Adults, Inform Adults

Working with adults with dementia from minority ethnic backgrounds: practice tips

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Workforce

Look back at the ‘brilliant’ social work colleagues of 2024

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

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Workforce

A Christmas special podcast: a peek inside Community Care

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

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A reunion of alumni from the University of Bradford social work course that started in 1974

Workforce

‘What 50 years of social work has taught us’

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Workforce

What are social workers’ job plans for 2025?

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

Workforce

To my fellow social work cohort: ‘The world needs us, so never give up’

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Pictured: Moira Gibb sitting against a white wall, wearing a white shirt with a black geometric necklace.

Workforce

Social Work Task Force chair on a career championing social work’s professional identity

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Children, Inform Children

Safeguarding disabled children: practice tips

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Children, Social work leaders

Council to vote on bringing children’s services back in-house

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Children, Social work leaders

Practitioners struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, finds analysis of serious cases

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Children, Social work leaders

Sara Sharif case review begins after father and stepmother convicted of murder

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Children, Workforce

Step up to Social Work bursary to increase after decade-long freeze

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Image of Isabelle Trowler, the chief social worker for children and families

Children, Social work leaders

‘Families first for children’ model to be rolled out to all councils, says chief social worker

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Children

DfE plans will curb profiteering but not without cutting care placement supply, say social workers

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