Child and family social work
Knowledge and skills statements. Inter-agency safeguarding. Guidance on becoming a social worker.
Guidance and regulation
- Working together to safeguard children
- Adoption support fund (ASF)
- Social work post-qualifying standards: knowledge and skills statements
- Report a serious child safeguarding incident
- Independent reviewing officers' handbook
News and communications
- Revised direction issued to Devon County Council (October 2022)
- Revised direction issued to West Sussex County Council (December 2020)
- Revised direction issued to West Sussex County Council (March 2022)
- Buckinghamshire County Council direction revoked
- Direction issued to North and West Northamptonshire Unitary Authorities (April 2021)
Research and statistics
- Children's social work workforce 2022
- Serious case reviews: analysis, lessons and challenges
- Longitudinal study of child and family social workers
- Applications to mother and baby units in prison: how decisions are made and the role of social work
- Characteristics of children in need: 2021 to 2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Children's social care national framework and dashboard
- Children's social care: Stable Homes, Built on Love
- Child and family social worker workforce
- Future inspection of Cafcass from 2021
- Social Work England: secondary legislative framework
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Child safeguarding practice review panel: pool of reviewers
- Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload and agency workforce
- Child safeguarding practice review panel: terms of reference and code of practice
- Memorandum of understanding and information-sharing protocol between the Health and Care Professions Council and Ofsted