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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Proportion of home care services providing care to four people or fewer has grown from 21% to 28% in past two years, says CQC ...

Child to parent abuse is typically either criminalised within the youth justice system or reframed as a child welfare issue, writes Sharon Davis ...