RT @lynnanneperry: I’m really pleased to see a cross governmental lead role for care leavers - this is exactly the sort of focussed intent…

Note There is a poll embedded within this post please visit the site to participate in this post's poll Average pay for council adults' social workers in England has fallen in real terms over the past decade annual workforce data...

RT @WandsworthCPD: Great turnout for session one of the Ofsted Early Years Curriculum Roadshow on the education inspection framework (EIF)…

Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession's mounting recruitment and retention challenges particularly in councils It has issued a tender of up to for researchers to examine the key drivers of high vacancies and help it identify...

Fatima is a care leaver who's campaigning for a council tax exemption for care leavers aged 18-25, reducing the lev… https://t.co/Hk2BYn6R8E

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RT @EndChildPoverty: We have just watched @KimJohnsonMP give a passionate speech on the need to abolish the 2-child limit to benefit paymen…

I came into this job to have really close contact with children and make things change -- it was a no-brainer Emma Hibberd is discussing her motivations for accepting the role of lead manager -- residential care at Hampshire County...

"Once you fall through that net, there's not many people there to catch you," he says. The current care system just… https://t.co/veBLXMQmDd

I came into this job to have really close contact with children and make things change -- it was a no-brainer Emma Hibberd is discussing her motivations for accepting the role of lead manager -- residential care at Hampshire County...

EastEnders star #JoeSwash has spoken out about what care leavers have to face when they leave foster care. His moth… https://t.co/oB4994FuHB

In its long-awaited response to the care review the Department for Education DfE highlighted the urgency of addressing social work's increasing workforce challenges Evidence points to a need to act now to attract higher numbers of people to join rejoin...

RT @AfC_Policy: 🔔 Urgent action is needed to address the impacts of the benefit cap on vulnerable families. We stand with @savechildrenuk i…

In Jayne came to a crossroads in her social work career Having always worked in permanent roles during an almost two-decade career she decided to take an agency post I didn't know if I wanted to remain in social...

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The multiple and complex needs of children made the subject of deprivation of liberty DoL orders have been laid bare in an analysis published last week The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory Nuffield FJO found that children had on average...

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The Department for Education has published a policy paper on information sharing which explores the barriers and po… https://t.co/NTzTNdxU88

Councils will be able use a m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults' services the government has confirmed The Department of Health and Social Care DHSC said that though the focus of the...