The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) have welcomed news that Government regulation of social work will be independent. Ministers had orginally
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For more than 10 years now I have been working as a social worker assisting sex workers. Humanitas PMW in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a NGO that offers specialized support
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More than 40,000 violent assaults against public service workers in Scotland have been recorded in the past decade, according to a survey. Unison’s annual Violence at Work Survey 2016 launched
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Councils are spending 10% more on social work services than almost a decade ago, with expenditure on helping vulnerable youngsters and their families increasing by more than a fifth. Spending
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The Care Inspectorate has today published a statistical summary of social work expenditure and activity for Scotland covering the period 2006/7 to 2014/15. It shows that general spending on social
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The past few weeks has seen considerable attention being paid to the value placed on a workforce, which in Scotland, is now in excess of 200,000. One in every thirteen
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The Care Council for Wales has successfully prosecuted a Cardiff man who wrongfully used the legally protected title of social worker. Andrew Jah, a graduate of Cardiff Metropolitan University, was
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A 17-year-old boy who police feared would head to Syria to wage jihad has been kept alive following an “extraordinary level” of local authority intervention, a High Court judge has
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The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW) has launched its report Above and Beyond which highlights that workload pressures faced by social workers result in 88% of staff working
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The future of social work in the UK and how it contributes to the world around us will be discussed in a series of new distinguished lectures at Liverpool Hope University. Beginning
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