ADASS says national insurance increase and national living wage rise have landed councils with £1.8bn in extra costs ...

Two-thirds of care services say they will have to make redundancies while 57% will have to hand back contracts to ...

A social work deputy team manager celebrates her former supervisor and now team manager whom she credits as an inspiration in ...

Children too often ignored or disbelieved by practitioners who lack the skills and confidence to combat infrafamilial child ...

However, councils have withdrawn social workers from integrated teams despite benefits for patients, finds study on out of ...

Large swathes of care market at risk of collapse due to national insurance and minimum wage rises without more government ...

Policy designed to fill 'gap in provision' for children with complex needs subject to deprviation of liberty orders ...

Government says it wants agency social work rules put into law in move described as 'reckless' by recruitment leaders ...

Being a social worker is no easy feat. Practitioners face a mountain of challenges: limited resources, high caseloads, increasingly complex needs, staff shortages and pay increases that have been ...

The Social Work Community Podcast has launched a new mini-series, where a panel of experts answer your social work careers questions Welcome to The Social Work Community Podcast’s new mini-series, ...

Social Work England is to hold more fitness to practise hearings this year as its case backlog continues to grow. The regulator plans to hold 81 final hearings to determine a social workers’ fitness ...