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

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 ...

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

Two recent studies provide evidence of the need for a dedicated access route to CAMHS for children with social work ...

As a predominantly female profession, we asked social workers whether they feel supported and equipped when working with ...

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

Cafcass family court advisers reported working unpaid overtime they have not been able to take back in previous month, a ...

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

Authorities expected to cap agency social work pay rates and refrain from hiring early career staff as locums under DfE rules ...

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

Minister Jacqui Smith says national workload action group, set up by Conservative government, will report by January 2025 ...