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    Workforce

    Local government pay: Scottish Government examining potential for improved offer as strikes loom

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    Workforce

    Tell us what you value in a social work job, to help us influence what employers offer

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Project seeks to improve quality of child safeguarding reviews

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    Children, Workforce

    Minister highlights prison social workers’ role in helping female inmates maintain relationships

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    ‘Change course on social care’, leaders tell government after scrapping of cap and training fund

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    £1bn shortfall in home care fees required to cover minimum wage, finds provider body’s research

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    Children

    The virtual reality social work training programme enabling relationship-based practice

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Learn from lived experience to enhance your social work practice

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Scrapping cap on care costs ‘another example of social care being tossed aside’, says Dilnot

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    Workforce

    Local government pay: second union to ballot for industrial action

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    How confident are social workers in the Labour government?

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    Workforce

    5.5% pay rise for NHS social workers in England

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    Adults, Workforce

    Labour ditches planned increase to adult social care training funding

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    Workforce

    Social work bursary levels frozen for 10th consecutive year

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    Chancellor of the Exchequer (2024-) Rachel Reeves

    Adults, Social work leaders

    Government scraps cap on care costs to help tackle spending ‘black hole’

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