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News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
Dial pointed at the word 'strategy'

Children, Social work leaders

DfE launches first national kinship strategy

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dear future social worker image for Community Care's Choose Social Work campaign

Children, Choose Social Work

‘The one social worker who made me feel genuinely cared for’

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Mental capacity act is shown using a text

Adults, Children

Mastering the Mental Capacity Act

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Girl looking sad to symbolise having suffered abuse

Children, Social work leaders

National review launched into familial child sexual abuse

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Children, Inform Children

Signs and indicators of county lines and criminal exploitation

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% national living wage hike will trigger adult social care cuts, councils warn

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John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Workforce

Social work monopoly on asylum age assessments should end, says sector leader

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Community Care Live delegates

Adults, Children, Workforce

Would you like to speak at Community Care Live 2024?

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Social worker making notes

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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A red line graph going upwards

Children, Social work leaders

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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Janet and Lizzie

Children, Choose Social Work

‘She’s been a mother figure to me’: a care leaver and social worker’s story

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Councils breaching guidance by not taking homeless teenagers into care, suggests Children’s Commissioner

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Children

‘We must stop blaming mothers in child protection social work’

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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Asylum-seeking child

Children, Social work leaders

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows

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Human rights card

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

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