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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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    Aman Basi, from Sandwell Children's Trust, and Dr Tarsem Singh Cooner, of the University of Birmingham

    Children

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

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

    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Learn from lived experience to enhance your social work practice

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    the angel of the north, a massive sculpture standing with wings outspread looking out over the Northumbrian countryside.
    Economist Andrew Dilnot standing in a library

    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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    Man putting his vote with word Strike into ballot box on black background, closeup

    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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    An illlustration of a salary rise

    Workforce

    5.5% pay rise for NHS social workers in England

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    Stephen Kinnock

    Adults, Workforce

    Labour ditches planned increase to adult social care training funding

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    student

    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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    Person's arm, with green sleeve, holding up red chalkboard with the word 'on strike' written in white chalk

    Workforce

    Social care workers strike over ‘carrying out social work tasks without extra pay’

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    Clock with the word 'review' written above it

    Adults, Social work leaders

    CQC ‘not fit for purpose’, says Streeting, in wake of damning report

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    Asylum-seeking child

    Children

    Councils offered £15,000 to take in unaccompanied children from Kent

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    Man sat on a wheelchair holding on to another hand of a person that is off frame.

    Adults, Workforce

    Social work across the decades: how the disability movement reshaped social care

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    Pictured: (left) Pat Curtis smiling in a yellow cardigan and a blue dress with dots and Nicola Silk (right) in a pink dress with matching pink hair. Both are holding a drink and are seated on a boat in the sea.

    Workforce

    ‘In memory of Pat, my social work mentor and inspiration’

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    Hand with pen pointing to Bursary word on the paper - financial concept

    Workforce

    Social work bursary delay risks excluding disadvantaged applicants from courses, academics warn

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