Tag Archives | poverty in social work practice

Workforce

Poverty often overlooked in social work assessments, say practitioners

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Mother With Son Trying To Keep Warm By Radiator At Home During Cost Of Living Energy Crisis

Children, Social work leaders

Poverty and homelessness driving demand for children’s social care, directors warn

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People protesting austerity cuts in 2010s

Workforce

Social work in the 2010s: surviving a decade of austerity

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Children, Workforce

More children at risk of extra-familial harm or reliant on food banks, say social workers

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Sad girl hugging a teddy

Children, Social work leaders

Response to neglect ‘slow and inadequate’ due to high thresholds and lack of services, finds NSPCC

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: Paul O’Grady’s death, the strip searching of children and food insecurity for staff

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Older Man Wearing Extra Clothes With Hot Drink Trying To Keep Warm At Home In Energy Crisis

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers seeing increasing poverty and greater need on back of cost of living crisis, finds BASW

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Social work leaders, Workforce

NQSW: ‘I get to the end of the second week after being paid and don’t have any money’

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Workforce

Charity for social workers in need struggling to meet demand as cost of living crisis bites

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Workforce

‘It’s taking a deprived single dad to highlight issues of food insecurity’

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Children, Social work leaders

Higher early help spend and less poverty strongly linked to positive Ofsted ratings, research finds

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Adults, Children, Mental Health

Lessons for social work practice from people’s stories of poverty

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