BASW Cymru deputy chair Carol Davies offers an insight into the Continuing Professional Education and Learning (CPEL): A Framework for Social Workers in Wales, outlining what it means for practitioners
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BASW member Janet Foulds has written a Guardian blog Child grooming – what social workers should know.
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Five people with learning difficulties have mounted a legal challenge in the High Court against West Berkshire Council over its social care cuts.
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The Old Station Nursery group is to feature on ITV’s Tonight programme next week highlighting the issues surrounding the rising cost of childcare.
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Nurseries and children’s centres should be able to take on ‘academy status’ and be freed from local authority control, according to a Conservative MP.
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A scheme to shield teenagers from sexual grooming could be rolled out across Greater Manchester.
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A mother and stepfather forced their 11-year-old son to live in a filthy converted coal bunker, a court heard today.
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SIGNIFICANT improvements in child protection services in Dundee have been praised by the Care Inspectorate – only three years after a damning report listed a litany of failures by agencies in protecting vulnerable children from “significant harm.”
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A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.
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Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time watching television or playing computer games, according to a psychologist.
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