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Adults, Workforce

A day in the life of a specialist continuing healthcare social worker

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Josh MacAlister, who led the 2021-22 Independent Review of Children's Social Care

Children, Social work leaders

Spending review: children’s services cash boost means Labour delivering on care review – MacAlister

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Inform Children

Tips on developing supervision order support plans

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Workforce

Use of AI rising among social workers, poll finds

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Children, Workforce

£3,500 pay rise for Cafcass social workers sought by unions

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Ashley John-Baptiste receiving an award for social work journalism from Mark Lynes and Reshma Patel

Workforce

BASW Social Work Journalism Awards 2025 winners unveiled

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Workforce

BASW and Social Workers Union launch campaign to tackle ‘poor’ staff working conditions

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Support worker comforting teenager in an office

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Children’s home staff paid over 20% more by councils than private sector, research reveals

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Angela Eagle

Children, Workforce

Government strongly backs Home Office social work service as BASW seeks abolition

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Events, Social work leaders, Workforce

Book your place for Community Care Live 2025

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Care worker putting a bandage on a man's arm in his home.

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

£1.6bn deficit in funding to meet minimum home care costs, finds provider body’s research

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Practitioner having a difficult conversation with a young man at a table

Children, Workforce

‘What I wish I had known about having difficult conversations with parents’

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Workforce

Most social workers unaware of Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard, poll finds

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Children, Social work leaders

What the new standalone Adoption Support Plan means for social work practice

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The words 'evidence based practice' stuck on coloured post-its on a notebook

Children, Social work leaders

What works body bids to strengthen use of evidence in children’s social care

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Social worker reassuring a young person

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mental healthcare for looked-after children ‘inadequate and unevidenced’, warn experts

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