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    Children, Workforce

    Cafcass pay deal for 2024-25 agreed

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Government orders national audit of child sexual exploitation by gangs

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    Roadworks on a street with a sign that reads installation in progress_ full fibre broadband'

    Social work leaders

    Is social care ready for the digital switchover?

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Is there a disconnect between the front line and senior management?

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Babies at increased risk of harm due to growing parental needs, say councils

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    Workforce

    Farewell to my practice educator: ‘You set the foundation blocks of my career’

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    Children, Inform Children

    How to conduct confident direct work with children

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    Jigsaw puzzle showing supply demand gap

    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Council social care fee rises lag national living wage hike for third year running, providers report

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    Woman looking depressed next to a cot, suggesting post-natal depression

    Adults, Children

    ‘We are failing women who have their newborn babies removed: that needs to change’

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    Mother With Son Trying To Keep Warm By Radiator At Home During Cost Of Living Energy Crisis

    Children, Social work leaders

    Poverty and homelessness driving demand for children’s social care, directors warn

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    Children, Workforce

    ‘What I wish I had known as a young newly qualified social worker’

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    Economist Andrew Dilnot standing in a library

    Adults, Social work leaders

    Dilnot: social care commission should report by end of 2025, not 2028

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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    Workforce

    ‘To the social work manager who supported me through my ASYE’

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    Workforce

    Insights for NQSWs on starting out in social work

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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