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Why are we punishing our most deprived children instead of supporting them? Chris Perry on the ‘broken’ criminal justice system Viewpoint 30 Jul 2024
Digital social work post-Covid has ongoing risks Two new studies reflect on pros and cons of hybrid working News 30 Jul 2024
Labour scraps care cap and winter fuel payments to plug £22 billion public overspend Sector dismay as long-awaited social care funding solution is ditched after years of promises. News 30 Jul 2024
Spiralling costs of relocating at-risk children revealed in new study Fees of up to £170,000 over six months for one child prompts call for earlier intervention News 30 Jul 2024
900 social workers in England are on insecure zero-hour contracts Figures highlighted as government seeks to ban ‘exploitative’ work practice News 30 Jul 2024
‘Treatment of social workers going through fitness to practise in England reminds me of the Post Office scandal’ Practitioner stuck in ‘Kafkaesque’ nightmare for six years with no end in sight In focus 30 Jul 2024
Children ‘drifting’ in care longer than needed Study finds delays and ‘unnecessary state intervention’ News 30 Jul 2024
‘Their house is squalor, but they’ve got a 50-inch Brighthouse TV’ ‘Blaming narratives’ identified in comments made by Welsh social workers responding to poverty News 30 Jul 2024
What to expect from the fitness to practise process Social work England outlines what happens when a concern is raised about a social worker In focus 29 Jul 2024
Lessons for social workers from the Harehills riot Practitioners from the Gypsy, Roma Traveller community reflect on the child protection case that led to civil unrest In focus 29 Jul 2024