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Social workers in safeguarding warning
POLICY AND POLITICS

Social workers in safeguarding warning

By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2026

Home Office plans to overrule councils’ decisions on the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children present a ‘major safeguarding risk’, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned.

IMMIGRATION

Reform pledges to proritise Green councils for immigration detention centres

By Paul Marinko | 05 May 2026

Reform UK has pledged to prioritise areas with Green-controlled councils for illegal immigration ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Home Office trying to restore sharing of asylum data

By Dan Peters | 12 February 2026

Senior Home Office officials have told councils they are trying to restore their access to inform...

LEADERSHIP

Tightening your life jacket

By Aidan Rave | 02 February 2026

Aidan Rave considers the importance of sustaining leadership in a time of upheaval.

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed vows to stop those trying to pull country apart

By Dan Peters | 25 November 2025

Communities secretary Steve Reed has vowed to stop ‘people at the extremes of politics who are tr...

COHESION

Riding out the perfect storm

By Niall Bolger | 11 September 2025

Niall Bolger says communities are in crisis and leaders must respond with compassion, presence an...

IMMIGRATION

More than £300m Ukrainian refugee funding unspent

By William Eichler | 19 August 2025

More than £300m given to English councils to help house Ukrainian refugees still sits in council ...

IMMIGRATION

Epping Forest councillors urge Government to close asylum hotel

By Joe Lepper | 25 July 2025

Councillors in Epping Forest have voted unanimously to call on the Government to ‘immediately and...

IMMIGRATION

The impacts and risks of immigration and skills policies

By Oliver Lodge | 05 June 2025

Closer collaboration across Government departments and local authorities is vital to securing the...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Controlling immigration will not address the labour market issues

By Mo Baines | 21 May 2025

The recognition of the need for deep changes in the structure and systems of delivering social ca...

POLITICS

Overseas recruitment for care workers to end

By Liz Wells | 12 May 2025

International recruitment for care workers will end under plans announced by home secretary Yvett...

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Team Manager - Child Exploitation and Missing Team

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Are you passionate about making a difference to our citizens and the district that they reside in? Apply for this job

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This is a defi ning leadership opportunity in a borough with real momentum Apply for this job

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