Children

News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
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Children, Social work leaders

Statutory duty to support birth parents needed to tackle repeat removals of children, says charity

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

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Children, Social work leaders

Review into ‘complex and fragmented’ social care laws for disabled children begins

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social worker shortages leaving mental health patients without safeguards, leaders warn

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Children

Early Help Information and Signposting Officer

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Children, Social work leaders

Courts to stop monitoring regulation of unregistered placements for children deprived of liberty

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Children, Inform Children

Working with autistic children and young people: tips for best practice

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Children, Social work leaders

Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

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Children, Social work leaders

Pilot to test whether early social worker-guardian meetings can help curb care proceedings delays

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass offers staff 4% pay rise for 2023-24

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Children, Social work leaders

Cafcass starts prioritising London private law cases to ‘maintain safe workloads for social workers’

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Children, Social work leaders

Deprivation of liberty: ‘We’re managing risk – not helping these children recover’

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Children, Social work leaders

Government presses ahead with scientific asylum age assessments in face of criticisms

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social work rules: ‘hugely frustrating’ delay to DfE consultation response

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Children, Social work leaders

Family group conferencing good practice must not be diluted in rollout, experts warn

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘We never hear about the children social workers help’: a day in the life of a social work team

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