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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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