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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Council staff offered ‘full and final’ £1,290 pay rise for 2024-25

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    Barnet social workers represented by UNISON on the picket line

    Workforce

    Social workers reject council offer to settle dispute after more than 40 days of strike action

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    Children

    How effective is information sharing in child protection cases?

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    Adults, Children, Inform Adults, Inform Children

    Working with Gypsy and Traveller communities: tips for positive practice

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Social workers doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by admin, finds health check

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    The front cover of the Care Act 2014

    Adults, Social work leaders

    Ten years of the Care Act 2014: ‘the right legislation, undermined by a lack of funding’

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    The word price cap written in blocks with red arrows pointing up to it

    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Agency social work price caps will not come into force until spring 2025

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    Workforce

    Council staff in Scotland face real-terms pay cut, warns union as it prepares strike consultation

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    Diversity Equality Inclusion write on a sticky note isolated on Office Desk.

    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Councils invited to sign up to scheme to highlight racial inequalities in social care workforce

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    Care minister Helen Whately

    Adults, Children, Social work leaders

    Revised MCA code of practice ‘still under discussion’ two years after consultation on changes

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    Workforce

    Social Care Online library closes after almost 20 years

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    DHSC launches £16m fund to tackle exploitation of overseas care staff

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    Adults, Children

    How effective are case reviews in improving safeguarding practice?

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Social workers from 22 bodies to develop resources to cut workloads

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    Workforce

    Social work across the decades: the Maria Colwell inquiry

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    ‘Hundreds of social workers left in limbo’: BASW and unions urge action on fitness to practise delays

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