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    Events, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Book your place for Community Care Live 2025

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    £1.6bn deficit in funding to meet minimum home care costs, finds provider body’s research

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    Children, Workforce

    ‘What I wish I had known about having difficult conversations with parents’

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    Workforce

    Most social workers unaware of Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard, poll finds

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    Children, Social work leaders

    What the new standalone Adoption Support Plan means for social work practice

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    Children, Social work leaders

    What works body bids to strengthen use of evidence in children’s social care

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Mental healthcare for looked-after children ‘inadequate and unevidenced’, warn experts

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    Workforce

    Tell us what you look for in a social work job

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Parents increasingly making covert recordings of social workers for court, say family justice leaders

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    ‘It’s about fostering relationships and learning’: social work leaders on navigating multidisciplinary teams

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    Adults, Workforce

    Ending international recruitment of care workers risks severe staff shortages, say practitioners

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Social Work England gets budget boost to help tackle fitness to practise backlogs

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    Adults, Children, Inform Adults, Inform Children

    Practice tips on engaging with parents with learning disabilities

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Number of reported child deaths or serious harm cases down by a quarter in two years

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Almost half of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund awards last year exceeded new £3,000 limit

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Ray Jones: a critique of the DfE’s children’s social work reforms

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