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Children, Social work leaders

Family support spending recovers following years of stagnation, data shows

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Children, Social work leaders

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

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Children, Social work leaders

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

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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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DfE to quiz councils on balance of social workers and other practitioners in family help teams

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Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of the children's charity Become,

Children, Social work leaders

‘How the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill can be improved for care-experienced young people’

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MPs back plan to regulate agency staff use in children’s services

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Safeguarding reforms at risk from shortage of home education staff, warns ADCS head

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

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‘Impossible’ to assess effectiveness of child in need plans, warns watchdog

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Project to cut social work workloads to continue under Labour government

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Janet Daby

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Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister

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King Charles delivering the 2023 King's Speech in Parliament

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Law to bolster child protection announced in Labour’s first King’s Speech

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