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Lessons of Khyra’s death

By Bronagh Miskelly The serious case review into the death of Khyra Ishaq last week was notable not just for being the first published in full but because it reinforced the importance of dealing with...

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Social worker caseload pressure is unsustainable

by Ruth Smith More than 600 social workers responded to our survey on caseloads. The vast majority (89%) said high caseloads are affecting their ability to practice good social work. What’s more, the...

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Support Community Care and Unison’s Social Work Contract

by Bronagh Miskelly, Community Care group editorCaseloads of 30, 40 or even 50-plus. Vacancy rates rocketing in some areas. In recent weeks Community Care’s reports on the UK’s social work workforce...

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Assessed year car crash is on its way

By Bronagh Miskelly In theory it is difficult to fault the Social Work Reform Board’s plan to introduce the assessed year in employment (AYIE) for social workers much earlier than originally planned....

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Social care staff bear brunt of work-related assaults

Social care staff were the victims of 19% of the work-related assaults recorded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 2009-10 despite making up only 5% of the UK workforce.  However, this...

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Social work health checks a vital measure

By Bronagh Miskelly The chair of the Social Work Reform Board, Moira Gibb, is anxious. Her worry is that the leaders of some local authority social work departments are so overwhelmed by day-to-day...

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Social work chiefs must be profession’s champions

You may have noticed various Community Care staff on TV last week. Both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes, we were busy championing social work to the media after the Court of Appeal ruled...

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Workforce must be better planned

Workforce planning for social work is woefully inadequate. This is the only conclusion to be reached on reading a study on social worker retention levels in the British Journal of Social Work or...

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Truth behind the fall in social work vacancy rates

When it comes to workforce planning for UK social work and the levels of vacancies in local authorities there is an elephant in the room that our annual vacancy survey points at.  To adapt the riddle:...

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Support staff must not take lead roles

The news this week that support staff are being used to replace qualified social workers requires urgent action at a national and local level.  It is shocking that social work assistants are acting as...

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Lessons of Khyra’s death

By Bronagh Miskelly The serious case review into the death of Khyra Ishaq last week was notable not just for being the first published in full but because it reinforced the importance of dealing with...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Social worker caseload pressure is unsustainable

by Ruth Smith More than 600 social workers responded to our survey on caseloads. The vast majority (89%) said high caseloads are affecting their ability to practice good social work. What’s more, the...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Support Community Care and Unison’s Social Work Contract

by Bronagh Miskelly, Community Care group editorCaseloads of 30, 40 or even 50-plus. Vacancy rates rocketing in some areas. In recent weeks Community Care’s reports on the UK’s social work workforce...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Assessed year car crash is on its way

By Bronagh Miskelly In theory it is difficult to fault the Social Work Reform Board’s plan to introduce the assessed year in employment (AYIE) for social workers much earlier than originally planned....

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Social care staff bear brunt of work-related assaults

Social care staff were the victims of 19% of the work-related assaults recorded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 2009-10 despite making up only 5% of the UK workforce.  However, this...

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Social work health checks a vital measure

By Bronagh Miskelly The chair of the Social Work Reform Board, Moira Gibb, is anxious. Her worry is that the leaders of some local authority social work departments are so overwhelmed by day-to-day...

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Social work chiefs must be profession’s champions

You may have noticed various Community Care staff on TV last week. Both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes, we were busy championing social work to the media after the Court of Appeal ruled...

View Article


Workforce must be better planned

Workforce planning for social work is woefully inadequate. This is the only conclusion to be reached on reading a study on social worker retention levels in the British Journal of Social Work or...

View Article

Truth behind the fall in social work vacancy rates

When it comes to workforce planning for UK social work and the levels of vacancies in local authorities there is an elephant in the room that our annual vacancy survey points at.  To adapt the riddle:...

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Support staff must not take lead roles

The news this week that support staff are being used to replace qualified social workers requires urgent action at a national and local level.  It is shocking that social work assistants are acting as...

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