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 ...

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

Charity urges reinstatement of national adoption register - scrapped six years ago - to tackle increasing waits for children ...

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

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

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 ...

One January, several years ago, Marina*, a social worker working in the north of England, was looking forward to the new year with optimism. She couldn’t have imagined that by the end of the first ...