A social worker with experience of 14 years working part-time reveals some unexpected benefits of this work pattern ...

Children with social work involvement are more likely to be refused access to CAMHS, despite it being well established that they are more likely to suffer mental illness than their peers. That was the ...

Charity urges financial boost for kinship care arrangements outside care system, after finding fear of lost support is ...

As the social work profession remains predominantly female, we asked practitioners whether there is a need for more male ...

Policy, which is designed to tackle homelessness among care leavers, will also apply to domestic abuse survivors and armed ...

Advice from a Community Care Inform webinar on key considerations when undertaking life story work with children in foster ...

The government has scrapped the second round of the adult social work apprenticeship fund. The £4m payment would have enabled ...

Project also developing response plan should children's trusts fail financially, as adviser recommends 'inadequate' council ...

Sarah McClinton will take up post in January 2025, a year after Lyn Romeo left role, while Robert Lewis becomes mental health ...

Cafcass family court advisers reported working unpaid overtime they have not been able to take back in previous month, a ...

Adult social care cuts mean far fewer care staff will be able to gain baseline qualification and no CPD funding for regulated ...