Smiling colleagues conversing.

Workforce

‘She helps me bounce back when I’m struggling with the job’

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'Time to learn' written on notepad on desk with stapler, paperclips and pins

Workforce

How do you learn in your social work role?

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Grid of nine post-it notes with 'employee retention' written on the central one

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mental health social workers pose greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services

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Workforce

Most social workers would prefer to work part-time, poll finds

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Council social care spending up 10% in real terms for second year in a row, data shows

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Adults, Social work leaders

Parties have neglected social care in election campaign, say sector heads

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mental health leads hail project to highlight impact of AMHP work

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Children, Workforce

‘Social workers need to understand their power’: June Thoburn on her research career

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers honoured in King’s birthday list

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Children

Most social workers back ban on profit-making from children’s care

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Award-winning author Jenny Molloy speaking at Community Care Live 2023

Adults, Children, Workforce

Register now for Community Care Live 2024!

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Adults, Inform Adults

End-of-life care: tips for communicating with carers

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Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves talking to residents in Great Yarmouth in 2023

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

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Workforce

A social work student celebrates her ‘unsung heroes’

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

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Children

Book review: ‘Looked After: A Childhood in Care’

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