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The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care described the IT systems used by children’s services as “poorly configured”. These, it said, create barriers to data collection, delay information sharing and add extra bureaucracy for social workers to navigate, which takes them away from frontline practice.

Despite its prevalence in safeguarding, responding to neglect remains challenging for social workers. However, certain approaches can help

The financial vulnerability of councils could overtake the potential benefits of the reform programme, writes the president of the Association of

The new rating is a major improvement on its previous inspection.