Project also developing response plan should children's trusts fail financially, as adviser recommends 'inadequate' council ...

Professor Ray Jones reflects on his 50-year career in social work, the fragmentation of services today and the need for less ...

Sarah McClinton will take up post in January 2025, a year after Lyn Romeo left role, while Robert Lewis becomes mental health ...

The government has scrapped the second round of the adult social work apprenticeship fund. The £4m payment would have enabled ...

Adult social care cuts mean far fewer care staff will be able to gain baseline qualification and no CPD funding for regulated ...

A social work assistant celebrates a colleague who challenged and dispelled her biases about people's potential for ...

With council planning to introduce parental contributions for looking after children in care, charity warns such policies are ...

Practice tips for social workers on supporting victims of coercive and controlling behaviour, taken from a Community Care ...

No resolution in sight to annual local government pay pay round as union escalates campaign against COSLA's offer of 3.6% ...

However, in face of rising need and extra-familial harm, most children's social workers say key support services for families ...

DHSC to stick with CQC ratings system after LGA urges it to follow approach adopted in children's services of scrapping ...

NHS social workers given a 5.5% rise this year compared with 3-4% for council counterparts, despite councils' recruitment ...