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    Workforce

    To my practice educator: ‘You helped me build resilience during challenging times’

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    60% of community social care services have no or ‘outdated’ performance rating, analysis finds

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    Sara Galvin wearing a Vans tshirt and a rainbow lineyard

    Adults, Workforce

    ‘Our clients were invisible until our team came into being’: leading a service supporting homeless people

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    Workforce

    UNISON opens strike ballot over local government pay offer

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Response to neglect ‘slow and inadequate’ due to high thresholds and lack of services, finds NSPCC

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    Workforce

    Do we need more men in social work?

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    Workforce

    How much does online misinformation affect social workers?

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Ofsted to scrap single-word judgments of social care services

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    Adults, Children

    £2.3bn boost to social care spending in 2023-24

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    Workforce

    Over half of councils signed up to scheme to tackle social care workforce race inequalities

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    Workforce

    Social work registration renewal period opens in England

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    Adults, Children

    Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

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    Workforce

    Social worker numbers increase in Scottish councils

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    Workforce

    Social Work England seeks AMHPs and BIAs to inspect training courses

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    Children

    The Sensory Narrative: a poem on the cases that leave a mark

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