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

      Number of agency social workers falls for first time in seven years in children’s services

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      Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

      Children’s social worker caseload average falls to lowest recorded level, according to DfE measure

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      Children, Workforce

      Practitioners split over non-social work qualified staff taking on child in need assessments, poll finds

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      Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

      Fall in proportion of Cafcass social workers holding more than 20 cases

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      Children, Social work leaders

      ‘Our finding that social care touches a quarter of children shows the need to tackle poverty’

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      Adults, Children

      Free learning on restorative practice for World Social Work Day 2025

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      Yvette Cooper

      Adults, Children

      Child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing’ of vulnerable people to be made criminal offences

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      Adults, Children, Social work leaders

      Almost one in five councils granted ‘exceptional’ financial support to help balance books

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      Isabella Jonas-Wheildon

      Children, Social work leaders

      Toddler’s murder shows need for cross-border child protection guidance, finds case review

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      Children

      The Monster at Night: a poem about the struggles of a disabled child

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      Children, Workforce

      ‘What I wish I had known about keeping safe during home visits’

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      Parental substance misuse: how to support children

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      Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

      DfE to give update on early career support for children’s social workers

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      Children

      Where does the stigma around care-experienced people originate from?

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      Children, Social work leaders

      ‘Parallel to care system’ for unaccompanied children to be scrapped in asylum reforms

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      Adults, Children, Workforce

      Learn from the lived experience of childhood trauma

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