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Children

Sibling sexual behaviour: helping social workers assess risk and support families

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Adults, Children

Probation service failing to carry out necessary child protection and domestic abuse checks, finds inspectorate

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Children, Social work leaders

Practitioners ‘will not get into trouble’ for sharing information to protect children, says data watchdog

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Children

Working with children experiencing neglect: challenges and solutions

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Children, Inform Children

A trauma-informed approach to social work: practice tips

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Children

Discharge of care orders: filling the evidence gap

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Adults, Children

Government launches strategy to ‘rapidly reduce’ suicide rate that has remained stuck since 2018

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Children, Workforce

DfE sets up group to tackle social worker workloads

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Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

When social work becomes a family affair

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘It was wonderful to have somebody show me they really cared’: Luke Rodgers on the power of social work

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Children's minister David Johnston

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth minister in two years

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Children

Fight or Flight: a poem on children’s courage

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Ray Jones holding a copy of his review of children's social care in Northern Ireland

Children, Social work leaders

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to serious youth violence

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Government urges councils to take in unaccompanied children after court rules hotel placements unlawful

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Legal analysis: the Supreme Court’s verdict on ordinary residence and mental health aftercare

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