Authorities would also be expected to carry out annual self-assessment, while CQC also plans to increase focus on support for ...

BASW questions whether social workers will be among public service professionals given reduced settlement timeframe ...

An experienced socail worker reflects on the anxiety and pressure following a high-profile child death, and the tools that ...

Numbers of adult safeguarding concerns and Care Act section 42 enquiries in England have risen each year since 2020-21, figures show ...

Ofsted says concentration of homes in cheaper areas suggests decisions driven by profits, but Children's Homes Association ...

A children's social worker celebrates his former team manager, whose support he credits with keeping him in the profession ...

In the first in a three-part series from North East Lincolnshire Council,  social workers from children’s services explore ...

With Cafcass, council and NHS social workers offered different pay rises this year, we asked if salaries should be ...

Josh MacAlister says that rollout of regional care co-operatives will be sped up and it will become future model for care ...

Councils will still be graded by Ofsted in relation to children needing help and protection, children in care, care leavers ...

Clenton Farquharson raises concerns about adult social care users bearing costs but being excluded from decision making on ...

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea says migrant care workers are being subject to racism, exploitation and damaging ...