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    Adults, Children

    Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

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    Workforce

    Social worker numbers increase in Scottish councils

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    Workforce

    Social Work England seeks AMHPs and BIAs to inspect training courses

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    New leadership for AMHP Leads Network

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    Children

    ‘We make mothers responsible, but don’t work with men’: Brid Featherstone on child protection

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Definition of safer staffing levels in social work proposed to inform legislation

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    Workforce

    How easy is it for social workers to make time for CPD?

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    Children, Social work leaders

    ‘Worrying’ number of children wrongly placed in supported accommodation, says Ofsted chief

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    DoLS referral numbers hit new record but practitioners cut backlog and average case timeframes

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    Workforce

    What do you look for in a social work job?

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    Workforce

    ‘When I started, we’d be involved with a family for years’: David Howe on four decades in social work

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    Children, Workforce

    ‘A vocation, full of the best moments and some of the saddest’: a retiring children’s home manager looks back

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    Adults

    Social workers split on paying more tax to increase spending on social care, poll finds

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    Adults, Inform Adults

    Protecting adults from scams: top tips

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    Workforce

    ‘You were supportive in every way’: thank you to the manager who shaped my career

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