Social Workers
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Interactive care proceedings training launched
Cafcass and Kent University have launched interactive training aimed at demystifying care proceedings for social workers and service users. -->
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Social work self-evaluations to be shared with Ofsted
Ofsted has announced that it will pilot a scheme in which councils send them audits of frontline social work practice, under a new inspection regime. ...
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New draft NICE guideline on improving response to child abuse
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a new draft guideline on child abuse and neglect. It outlines how social wor...
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Guidance on social work and guardian collaboration
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) and Cafcass have published a new agreement on how local authority social workers and fami...
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Guidance for achieving permanence
The Department for Education has published guidance on the knowledge and skills social workers must have to help children in or entering care find per...
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Social worker turnover damaged understanding of case
A high turnover of social worker staff damaged a council’s understanding of a case where a 17-year-old fostered boy died, according to a Serious Cas...
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