Councils will receive £22.6m in delayed adult social care innovation funding next week, the government has confirmed. It confirmed today that the second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) ...

Association of Palliative Care Social Workers says people seeking an assisted death will need social support from a ...

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to CV writing and hiring in children’s social work. Managers will have slightly ...

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 ...

Agencies are not equipped to protect children from sexual abuse within the family, safeguarding leaders have found. Children are too often ignored or disbelieved by practitioners who lack the ...

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

However, councils have withdrawn social workers from integrated teams despite benefits for patients, finds study on out of ...

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 ...

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 ...