Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Social work mentors need to be positive but also have the courage to be critical’

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Workforce

Happy World Social Work Day 2025!

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Black social worker representation halves between front line and management, data shows

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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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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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