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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Councils losing ground to NHS in competition for social workers, warns LGA

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Home Office age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

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    Children, Workforce

    ‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    ‘Dire state of social care’ among reasons NHS is in ‘disrepair’, adviser tells government

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    Workforce

    ‘She pushed me out of my comfort zone and challenged me to better myself’

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Labour vows to continue project to tackle social worker workloads

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    Children, Workforce

    More children at risk of extra-familial harm or reliant on food banks, say social workers

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    Workforce

    Social workers weigh in on how to improve the ASYE

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    Workforce

    UNISON plans nationwide strike ballot after members reject revised council pay offer in Scotland

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    No plans to scrap single-word ratings for adults’ services, says government

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Regions seeking to develop joint agreement on employing agency social workers

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    Janet Daby

    Children, Social work leaders

    Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Regional care commissioning test-bed sites selected

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    Workforce

    To my practice educator: ‘You helped me build resilience during challenging times’

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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