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In the seven months since Rhiannon started working in one of Norfolk County Council's family assessment and safeguarding teams FAST her knowledge of practice and ability to tackle more complex child safeguarding cases have soared She attributes this to a...

Things have never been so bad for people needing care carers and staff the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned In a speech to the National Children and Adult Services NCAS Conference yesterday Sarah...

Increasing numbers of children's agency social workers are newly qualified amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand directors have warned Children's services leaders raised concerns about the cost quality and profit extracted from agency work in responses to the Association...

Three-quarters of social workers are yet to renew their registration with one month to go until the deadline As of this morning November of eligible practitioners had completed the process This involves submitting the renewal application paying...

Note There is a poll embedded within this post please visit the site to participate in this post's poll Council social workers in England and Wales will get a pay rise this year after unions agreed to employers' offer...

Just over half of people receiving council-arranged long-term care had a review of their support plans in - official figures have shown NHS Digital said per cent of people who had been receiving long-term support for more than a...

The number of child protection enquiries reached record levels in - as referrals to children's social care surged in the wake of the removal of Covid restrictions Social workers carried out more enquiries under section of the...

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International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Critical consciousness as a core competence of western social workers and a type of personal resource has been diminished in China This study examined whether critical consciousness buffered the effect of role stress on burnout with a nationally representative sample Results showed that critical consciousness prevented emotional exhaustion and depersonalization in social workers suffering from role stress while it did not enable them to perceive personal...