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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 1h
Social workers say employers are failing to take steps to keep them safe, despite frequent verbal abuse during visits
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Employers not doing enough to keep social workers safe during visits, say practitioners - Community Care
Employers not doing enough to keep social workers safe during visits, say practitioners - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Events will consider questions including whether current annual requirement to submit CPD should be reduced
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Social Work England seeks practitioners' views on CPD reform - Community Care
Social Work England seeks practitioners' views on CPD reform - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Number 10 says planned national care service will provide free personal care for older people but
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Working-age adults not promised free care under Burnham plan - Community Care
Working-age adults not promised free care under Burnham plan - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scottish Social Services Council says it received 15.5% (748) more fitness to practise referrals in 2025-26 than 2024-25
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Fitness to practise caseloads up by a third in Scotland due to referral spike - Community Care
Fitness to practise caseloads up by a third in Scotland due to referral spike - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper announces collective pension scheme for care workers
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Care workers to get national pension scheme, says social care secretary - Community Care
Care workers to get national pension scheme, says social care secretary - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As social workers' reliance on AI grows, concerns are mounting about its impact on critical thinking skills
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AI is a game changer for neurodivergent social workers, but is it undermining their skills? - Community Care
AI is a game changer for neurodivergent social workers, but is it undermining their skills? - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ADCS says Ofsted plan to penalise councils for using unregistered homes would hold authorities to unattainable standard
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More children would be placed far from home under plan to penalise councils for unregistered home use, says ADCS - Community Care
More children would be placed far from home under plan to penalise councils for unregistered home use, says ADCS - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Prime minister confirms plan for Labour to fight next election on plan for social care system free at the point of use
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Burnham vows to fund national care service from ending pensions triple lock - Community Care
Burnham vows to fund national care service from ending pensions triple lock - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Think Ahead announces it will close in August 2027, when final cohort completes two-year programme and DHSC funding ends
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Social work charity to close with ending of fast-track training programme - Community Care
Social work charity to close with ending of fast-track training programme - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andy Burnham says manifesto for election due by 2029 will contain proposals to deliver and fund free social care
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Burnham pledges social care free at point of use if Labour wins next election - Community Care
Burnham pledges social care free at point of use if Labour wins next election - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A third of carers are spending over 100 hours a week caring, while use of services by those they care for has fallen
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Unpaid carers increasingly under strain and struggling to look after themselves, DHSC survey reveals - Community Care
Unpaid carers increasingly under strain and struggling to look after themselves, DHSC survey reveals - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Assessment and safeguarding complaint numbers rose significantly, but ombudsman upheld similar number to previous year
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Adult social care complaints spike but number upheld by watchdog falls - Community Care
Adult social care complaints spike but number upheld by watchdog falls - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Agency decision makers reversed 1,010 decisions to place children for adoption in 2025-26, up 17% on the year before
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Number of adoption reversals rises to six-year high on back of increasing adopter shortage - Community Care
Number of adoption reversals rises to six-year high on back of increasing adopter shortage - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most social workers would support assisted dying, despite MPs recently rejecting the Terminally Ill Adults bill
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Assisted dying retains social work support despite MPs’ rejection, poll finds - Community Care
Assisted dying retains social work support despite MPs’ rejection, poll finds - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Black social workers twice as likely to progress through case examination stage as white peers, says Social Work England
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Black social workers more likely to face fitness to practise investigations and hearings than white peers - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Safety watchdog finds people in crisis facing prolonged stays in crowded, noisy and untherapeutic emergency departments
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A&E the 'default' for people in mental health crisis, but often ill-equipped to meet need, finds report - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BASW-backed charity that dispenses educational grants to social workers says its trustees are reviewing its operations
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Social Workers' Educational Trust pauses work pending review - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Community Care and UNISON have published a digital guide to help early-career social workers succeed in the profession
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How to prepare for your social work career - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A practitioner with 20 years’ experience reflects on what went wrong when a mother requested a new social worker
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Dealing with a family's request for a new social worker - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While free school meal entitlement is being extended, many fostered children are losing out, finds survey
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Half of foster carers report children losing free school meal entitlement - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NISCC proposes that charge for social workers would rise from £65 to £127 over two years, with higher rate for leaders
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Social workers face doubling of registration fees in Northern Ireland, under regulator's plans - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Community Care poll reveals support from social workers for unions lodging an early pay claim for council staff in 2027
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How should unions approach the 2027–28 local government pay claim? - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Social Work England and health regulators say they will produce high-level principles on how they will regulate AI use
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AI in social work: regulators pledge statement of principles - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BASW to create new sales and marketing team to drive membership, while pledging equality of approach to four UK nations
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BASW bids for 50% social work membership as it announces new vision - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Using artificial intelligence transcription tools in social care carries significant legal risks, an academic has warned
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'The worrying lack of legal literacy when using AI in social care' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ministers have deferred response to Law Commission's report on reforming disabled children's social care law
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Government delays response to disabled children's law reform proposals - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An experienced social worker reflects on learning to make difficult decisions when outcomes for families were uncertain.
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How to deal with uncertainty in children's social work - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Social worker Sophie Baker recounts struggling to engage a care experienced mother-to-be and what turned things around
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'What a care experienced mother taught me about trust, trauma and parental engagement' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fears over future of postgraduate schemes allayed but government's long-term plan is to remove funding, warns LGA
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Postgraduate social work apprenticeships spared for now following government funding clarification - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A social worker recounts a week in which she considered how she balances self-care with responding to huge need
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Social work diary: 'How do I balance looking after myself with responding to this massive need?' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Strong relationships are critical as care leavers enter adulthood. Shared Lives can provide this, writes Rachel Leslie
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How Shared Lives can help tackle the leaving care 'cliff edge' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The founder of social work’s anti-racist movement, Shantel Thomas, on the cost of masking her neurodivergence for years
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Being black and neurodivergent in social work: 'I became a master at masking because I didn't feel safe’ - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
14 councils and trust that runs three services selected as children's social care improvement teams (CITs) by DfE
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DfE selects councils to help others improve children's social care and deliver on reforms - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A social work trainer provides advice on how to ensure case files are written with clarity, care, and for children.
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How to ensure your case recording is child-focused - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Through its neurodiversity group, Medway has seen meaningful change in how it supports neurodivergent staff and families
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How neurodivergent social workers shifted a service's attitude towards supporting and hiring staff - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Scottish Association of Social Work and Social Workers Union say members have told them that Glasgow City Council's pay and grading overhaul will lead to sub...
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Social work managers face salary cuts due to council's equal pay plan, say professional bodies - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A black, neurodivergent leader reflects on the rigid way the sector interprets leadership
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Rethinking how neurodivergent leadership fits within social work - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A social worker supporting unaccompanied asylum seekers reflects on the power professionals hold over children's time
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How time becomes power when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A social worker reflects on being Jewish in social work, the rising tide of antisemitism, and how colleagues can help
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'Why social work must do more to acknowledge and tackle antisemitism' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tim Spencer-Lane explains the reasoning behind the Supreme Court's seismic judgment on deprivation of liberty
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The Supreme Court's reversal of the Cheshire West judgment explained - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Top tips for social workers on answering introductory and competency-based interview questions
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How to answer social work job interview questions - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Survivors' network criticises ending of funding for services including trauma therapy for those abused in council's care
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Loss of 'invaluable' services for survivors abused in care has had 'devastating' effect, says advocacy group - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Revived legislation rejected by House of Commons, ending latest effort to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill
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Assisted dying bill voted down by MPs - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A dyslexic social worker talks about the challenges she faces as a neurodivergent practitioner and what has helped her
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Proving everyone wrong as a dyslexic social worker - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A social worker describes how using motivational interviewing as a reflective tool helped quell her self-doubt
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How motivational interviewing can reduce self-doubt in social work - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Listen to a social worker talk about her diagnoses autism and ADHD and why she has not disclosed them to her employer
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Social work with autism and ADHD: why disclosure feels unsafe - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A social worker reflects on how over-empathising with a parent can risk practitioners losing focus on the children.
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The risk of over-empathising with a parent as a social worker - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A social worker with autism, ADHD, and dyscalculia reflects on how their neurodivergence shapes their practice
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'How autism, ADHD and dyscalculia shape my social work practice' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A retired social worker reminisces about his first job in the '70s and the qualm that led his team to write to the media
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Social Work Tales: 'I blew the whistle in my first social work role' - Community Care
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Community Care @community-care.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
People with learning disabilities being more physically included, but remain socially stigmatised, says Louise Gallacher
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'How people with learning disabilities remain stigmatised - and how to change young people's attitudes' - Community Care
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