Female care worker on home visit showing her ID, close up

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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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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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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the angel of the north, a massive sculpture standing with wings outspread looking out over the Northumbrian countryside.
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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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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Workforce

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

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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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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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Workforce

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

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Workforce

What do social workers read in their spare time?

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