Wooden cubes spelling Full/Part time

Workforce

The unexpected benefits of working part-time in social work

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Workforce

Does the sector need more male social workers?

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Children, Social work leaders

Care leavers exempted from local connection requirement to access social housing

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A teenage girl looks at a photo book at Christmas.

Children, Inform Children

Practice tips for undertaking life story work

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE seeking ‘more cost-effective’ alternative to children’s trusts for struggling services

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘A spokesperson for social work’: Ray Jones’s 50-year career in the sector

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

DHSC scraps second round of adult social work apprenticeship fund

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Sarah McClinton and Robert Lewis

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Ex-ADASS president appointed chief social worker for adults

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils warned charging parents for children in care will undermine safeguarding and increase costs

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government cuts £115m from adult social care staff training funding

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Workforce

‘My colleague made me believe that people can change for the better’

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Children

‘Why children with social workers need a dedicated pathway to access CAMHS’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Caseloads fall at Cafcass but social workers still struggling with work pressures, finds survey

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Children, Workforce

Social workers don’t feel supported to work with fathers, poll finds

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Adults, Inform Adults

Coercive and controlling behaviour: tips for social care practitioners on supporting victims

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Rules curbing councils’ use of agency social workers to come into force

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