Social workers articles
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Search is on for the country’s best social workers
The Social Worker of the Year Awards 2024 is free to enter and members of the public are being encouraged to nominate social workers from the East Midlands who they feel deserve to be recognised for their hard work and support. The prestigious awards has 18 categories which social workers can be nominated for including, ‘Children’s Social Worker of the Year’, ‘Adult Social Worker of the Year’ and ‘Social Work Student of the Year’. There are two new award categories this year....
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Leiland-James Corkill's murder happened because the woman who was adopting him lied to social workers about her financial and health struggles, coroner says
Baby Leiland-James Corkill (pictured) was shaken to death by Laura Castle at their home in Barrow, Cumbria, on January 6, 2021.
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Fury as £15,951-a-year private school 'reports parents of trans student to social workers for refusing to affirm their daughter's new identity'
George Watson's College called social services at the end of 2020 after the parents, who acted on advice from psychologists, asked the school to carry out a 'watchful waiting' approach to their child.