Social work news

• Social workers not confident in DfE project to cut their workloads, poll finds

  05-06-2024 18:39
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers have little faith in a Department for Education’s (DfE) project to cut their workloads, a Community Care poll has found.
  Three-quarters said they did not believe resources produced by the national workload action group (NWAG) would result in a reduction in the burdens on children’s practitioners.
  The NWAG, a group of sector leaders, is working with social workers a
  
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• How creative life story work puts care experienced children in control

  05-06-2024 14:28
  
  By Jo Stephenson
  Life story work can play a key role in helping care experienced children and young people understand their family background and how they came into care.
  “Ultimately it contributes to their sense of identity, which is absolutely critical,” says CoramBAAF adoption consultant Jane Poore.
  “It’s a grounding in who they are and where they came from, and if they don’t have that information they will either seek it out themselves – possibly putting t
  
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