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Adults, Inform Adults

Coercive and controlling behaviour: tips for social care practitioners on supporting victims

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to child victims of domestic abuse

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils losing ground to NHS in competition for social workers, warns LGA

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Children, Social work leaders

Home Office age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

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Children, Workforce

‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’

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Adults, Social work leaders

‘Dire state of social care’ among reasons NHS is in ‘disrepair’, adviser tells government

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Workforce

‘She pushed me out of my comfort zone and challenged me to better myself’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Project to cut social work workloads to continue under Labour government

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Children, Workforce

More children at risk of extra-familial harm or reliant on food banks, say social workers

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Workforce

Social workers weigh in on how to improve the ASYE

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Workforce

UNISON plans nationwide strike ballot after members reject revised council pay offer in Scotland

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Adults, Social work leaders

No plans to scrap single-word ratings for adults’ services, says government

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Regions seeking to develop joint agreement on employing agency social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister

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Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning test-bed sites selected

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Workforce

To my practice educator: ‘You helped me build resilience during challenging times’

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