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Ministers are due to give their response to the "once in a generation opportunity to transform children's social care" any day now. Professional Social Work magazine considers what they might say

Children's campaigner says it's vital to tackle discrimination

Extracts from Scroll of Agony - The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A Kaplan, reproduced with kind permission from his granddaughter Rena Phillips, a social worker and BASW member

Top tips from Alasdair Kennedy

Keeping a ‘crap book’ at hand for dumping thoughts that pop into her head is useful, Georgiana Ndlovu finds

Children whose age is disputed are being issued ‘notices of intent’ to be removed warns charity

Exclusion from welfare safety net is reducing parents’ capability to care

England’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care recommends they are abolished. But Simon Ward urges caution

The British asylum system is in meltdown and Social Workers Without Borders believe the increased segregation and criminalisation of people seeking asylum must be challenged and their human rights protected.

In a year that saw the invasion of Ukraine, the death of the Queen, three Prime Ministers and a cost of living crisis, we look back on the key events for social work as featured in Professional Social Work magazine