This was a faster rate of growth than the 9% rise in councils’ gross expenditure on adult social care, which increased from ...

In light of the upcoming consultation on the new deprivations of liberty system, we gauged social workers' opinions on ...

Transfer of services back to Reading council leaves 10 of 153 English children's services being operated outside of local ...

AMHP Abul Hussain explores the ethical dilemmas he confronts, how he learns from practice and how he has built the resilience to keep going ...

Think Ahead will offer training to wider mental health workforce but will advocate for reinstatement of social work training ...

Absence of national workload guidance means some social workers work extra unpaid hours, have less time for direct work and ...

A survivor of a racially-motivated assault at work details how a transparent risk assessment could have spared her months of ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has appointed a new lead civil servant for adult social care. Sally Warren ...

Despite concerns services do not sufficiently prioritise the friendships of children in care, a majority of practitioners say ...

DHSC recruiting for sector leaders to go into councils found by CQC to be struggling in order to support improvement ...

Casey Commission issues callout for the views of those receiving, and working in, care and support about what is and is not ...

BASW hails successful campaign to relax policy, under which undergraduates who withdraw from, or defer, training may not ...