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Workforce

Local government pay: Scottish Government examining potential for improved offer as strikes loom

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Workforce

Tell us what you value in a social work job, to help us influence what employers offer

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Children, Social work leaders

Project seeks to improve quality of child safeguarding reviews

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Children, Workforce

Minister highlights prison social workers’ role in helping female inmates maintain relationships

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Change course on social care’, leaders tell government after scrapping of cap and training fund

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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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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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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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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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Adults, Workforce

Labour ditches planned increase to adult social care training funding

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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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