Social workers require good digital skills and capabilities to support their complex role. A wide range of stakeholders – from practitioners and people who use services, to tech developers and
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An anorexic teenager who wants to go home must stay in specialist accommodation, a Court of Protection judge has decided. The 17-year-old girl, who at one stage weighed 4st 6lb
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What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) is seeking participants for the extension of its Practice In Need of Evidence programme, examining multi-agency partnerships working to improve outcomes in children’s
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A toddler who was sharing an overcrowded home with two dogs must go into council care, a family court judge has decided. The house where the little boy, who is
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A woman with learning disabilities, who was at the centre of an abortion battle, should be fitted with a contraceptive device, a judge in a specialist court has decided. The
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The nominees for this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards have been announced. 94 practitioners, social work teams and organisations from across England have been shortlisted this year in
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Social services bosses at a Welsh council have come under fire from a High Court judge after two couples became embroiled in “nightmare” litigation when a woman changed her mind
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Food bank referrals have become an every-day part of social work practice across Scotland – with social workers even using their own money to make sure families have enough to
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Franziska Meinck from the SPS Social Work team at The University of Edinburgh has received a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant for a study on the transmission of violence
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Hundreds of children in care are being “marched back” to visit their abusive parents and a majority of foster families want to see the practice made illegal, research suggests. More
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