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Children's Social Work Matters
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- Thursday, May 4, 2017
A region-wide approach uniting 15 local authority children's services that encourages staff to share best practice.
Exploring How Social Workers Experience and Cope with Public Perception of Their Profession
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- Thursday, May 4, 2017
Social services are highly susceptible to public scrutiny, and public perception of the profession has implications for staff recruitment, acceptance of social work practice, and the vitality and effectiveness of the profession.
Researching Social Work Practice Close Up: Using Ethnographic and Mobile Methods to Understand Encounters between Social Workers, Children and Families
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- Thursday, May 4, 2017
Ferguson looks at social work practice with families subject to child protection processes to increase understanding of what goes on during home visits.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight councils
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- Thursday, May 4, 2017
Employing skilled administrators has freed up social workers to do more face-to-face work.
Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families - Policy context
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- Thursday, May 4, 2017
The 2014 book, Baby P: The Untold Story, by Ray Jones, emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George's University of London, explains the impact of the death of Peter Connelly in August 2007 on the social work profession.
Special Report: Technology in Social Work
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Social work leaders, practitioners and teams are increasingly using technology to improve how they engage with children, young people and families, and share vital safeguarding information with partner agencies.
LGA board chief: let councils solve children's services challenges
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, says councils must be given freedoms to overcome a crisis in funding, recruitment and excessive demand across children's social care.
Technology in Social Work: Practice example - Child Protection Information Sharing project (CP-IS)
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
National 'care bank', not market solutions, can avert cash crisis
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Many sector voices have been speaking overtly about a serious crisis in council children's services.
Technology in Social Work: Practice example - Social work apps
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Social work professionals and the children, young people and families they work with are increasingly using apps on smart phones and tablets to communicate, access support and share information. Here are four examples
Boarding boost for children in care
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Partnership aims to convince councils of the merits of placing looked-after children in boarding school.
Special Report: Technology in Social Work - Research evidence
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- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
The research section for this special report is based on a selection of academic studies which have been explored and summarised by Research in Practice (www.rip.org.uk), part of the Dartington Hall Trust.
Children in care supplement: Policy and practice
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- Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Supplement on supporting looked-after children and young people to fulfil their potential amid increasing pressure and policy reform.
Support fund cap raises concerns over breakdown of adoptions
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- Tuesday, October 25, 2016
A huge rise in demand has forced the government to limit money available through the Adoption Support Fund, prompting calls from experts for a long-term solution to be found that ensures families can receive the help they need.
Troubled Families delivers gains despite damning study findings
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- Tuesday, October 25, 2016
In-depth research has found no link between the Troubled Families programme and improved outcomes for participants, but children's services leaders claim the government's flagship initiative still has merits.
Legal Update: Child abuse inquiry - what now?
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- Monday, October 10, 2016
Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the impact that recent resignations will have on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Children's Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training: Social work
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- Tuesday, September 27, 2016
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