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    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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    Person placing a wooden block with the word 'budget' written in black on it on top of a similar block with the word 'gap' written on it

    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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