Grassroots approaches to tackling childhood obesity will receive £1.5 million in funding, the Government has announced. Five councils are to be supported by the Department of Health and Social Care,
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A man who refuses to register his son’s birth because he does not want the State to control the youngster has lost a High Court fight. Council social services bosses
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A social worker has told a judge in a specialist court that a pregnant mentally-ill woman should be allowed give birth. Bosses at an NHS trust responsible for the woman’s
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One in four council jobs has been axed or outsourced in the past decade as a result of austerity, a new study suggests. Staff numbers have halved in some local
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The social work teaching partnership programme was developed to transform the quality of education and experience received by social work students and practitioners. This evaluation explores the programme’s activity to
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The Department of Education has produced a range of resources for National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) leads, child and family social work practitioners and practice supervisors to help them
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Social work is facing a “crisis” because of years of spending cuts, threatening to “tear apart” communities, a union has warned. Unison said its research revealed high levels of stress
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A woman who has had seven children removed from her care is pregnant again, a family court judge has been told. The woman, who is in her late 20s, is
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The Government has been defeated in the Lords over the scrapping of the adoption register for England. Peers voted by a majority of 85 to “regret” the move, warning it
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A two-year-old boy who needed major surgery after being kicked and punched by a man his mother lived with should move to his father’s home, a High Court judge says.
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