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    Children, Social work leaders

    Fostering Families: a relationship-based alternative to separating them

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    Workforce

    Wayne Reid: how George Floyd’s murder inspired social work’s anti-racism ‘visionary’

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Council found to have racially discriminated against social worker lodges second appeal

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    Adults, Workforce

    A day in the life of a social care occupational therapist

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    Smiling colleagues conversing.

    Workforce

    The support worker brothers going ‘above and beyond’ for families and colleagues

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    Person signing legal letter

    Adults

    Deprivation of liberty court application numbers hit record high

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    typewriter with a note writing 'Dear Social Worker by Becky Haasch'

    Workforce

    ‘Dear social worker’: a poem to make practitioners feel seen

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    A person putting a vote in a ballot box

    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Community Care readers’ voting intentions revealed

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    Photo: Stephen Anthony Brotherton

    Workforce

    ‘Mum and Boy’: a social work author’s take on the mother-son relationship

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    Mental Health. Stress, tension, relationships and work environment concept. Man's hand, holding magnifying glass

    Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    BASW chief Ruth Allen on the state of mental health social work

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    Workforce

    ‘She helps me bounce back when I’m struggling with the job’

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    Photo: North East Lincolnshire Council
    Post-it note on a table with the word 'STRIKE' written on it

    Children, Workforce

    Social workers to strike over election day as Northern Ireland dispute escalates

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    'Time to learn' written on notepad on desk with stapler, paperclips and pins

    Workforce

    How do you learn in your social work role?

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    Grid of nine post-it notes with 'employee retention' written on the central one

    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Mental health social workers pose greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services

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    Workforce

    Most social workers would prefer to work part-time, poll finds

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Council social care spending up 10% in real terms for second year in a row, data shows

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