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• Social work across the decades: the birth of the adults’/children’s divide

  12-06-2024 15:24
  
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  by Ray Jones
  This article on social work in the 1980s is the second in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Each part will look back at key events from the previous five decades – starting with the 1970s – that have shaped the social work sector today.
  The 1970s saw the creation of a unified generic profession of social work and
  
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• No new funding for children’s social care reforms in Tory manifesto despite £2.6bn care review bill

  12-06-2024 13:06
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Conservatives have allocated no new funding to reforming children’s social care in their election manifesto, despite the blueprint for the changes carrying a £2.6bn bill.
  The manifesto, issued yesterday, made two specific pledges on children’s social care, to create more places in children’s homes and to expand befriending and mentoring programmes for care leavers
  
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