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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A colleague celebrates their fellow practice development manager, who freely offers emotional support and training while ...

Hampshire County Council foster carers Andrea and Johnny discuss how they’ve been able to use transferrable skills in ...

Process would allow regulator and social worker to agree case facts and sanctions which, if approved by adjudicators, would avoid need for contested final hearing ...

Looked-after children, foster carers and social workers are facing rising levels of racism, Josh MacAlister has been warned. In a letter to the children’s minister, the Nationwide Association of ...