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    Children, Social work leaders

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

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    Children, Inform Children

    Tips on developing supervision order support plans

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    Children, Workforce

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

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    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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    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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    Children, Social work leaders

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

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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    Workforce

    Tell us what you look for in a social work job

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Parents increasingly making covert recordings of social workers for court, say family justice leaders

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