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Bill to end profit from children’s care in Wales becomes law

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Use of unregulated experts in family courts to be curbed following ‘parental alienation’ concerns

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DfE proposes two-year support scheme for children’s social workers to replace ASYE

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Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: minister ‘doing everything to push forward decision’

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Black social worker representation halves between front line and management, data shows

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An update on the Mental Health Bill’s passage through Parliament

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Lack of staff and beds leading to ‘harmful’ gaps in mental healthcare, warns CQC

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‘Equipping social workers to meet 21st century challenges relating to death and dying’

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‘Sea change’ needed in approach to race in safeguarding practice, says national panel

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Corporate parenting duty to be placed on government departments and public bodies

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‘What I wish I had known about building trusting relationships with children’

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Children, Social work leaders

Number of children on protection plans for CSA at 30-year low, experts warn

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Thousands of children risk losing access to vital therapy, claim support providers

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‘Substantial work’ needed to improve family group conference data, study finds

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Children, Social work leaders

About the new standard of kinship care assessment

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Record numbers of children’s social workers in post but fewer holding cases, figures reveal

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