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Findings from surveys of people who applied to and people who completed cohort 7 of the step up to social work programme.
Explores the first stage of Regional Care Cooperative (RCC) rollout in the 2 pathfinder areas to understand early implementation.
Reports exploring how to reduce social workers’ workload.
Research about supporting local safeguarding partners to learn from serious child safeguarding incidents.
Rapid evidence review of child and family social worker knowledge and skills.
Report on research to develop a new multi-level model of relative need for children and young people’s services in local authorities, completed in January 2020.
Annual statistics on children and family social workers, including agency social workers, employed in local authorities in England.
This report, produced by Safer London, shares children's and families' experiences of multi-agency support when impacted by serious youth violence.
This report looks at how local partnerships and services respond to children and their families when children are affected by serious youth violence.
Annual statistics on children and family social workers including agency children and family social workers in England.
This report examines the multi-agency response to children and families who need help, using information from 5 inspections of local authority areas.
Findings from a 5-year study of local authority child and family social workers in England.
Information about children's social workers employed in local authorities and agency social workers.
Research reports analysing serious case reviews (SCRs), with findings for professionals working with children and families.
Findings and recommendations from a case review of application decisions for mother and baby units in prison and the role of social work.
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services for the year ending 31 March 2022.
Analysis of drivers of activity for children’s social care.
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services for the year ending 31 March 2021.
Evaluation of the DfE funded practice leader development programme (PLDP) for aspiring practice leaders in child and family social work.
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