Government increases ASGSF budget for 2026-27 by 10% but fails to unwind reductions in funding limits for therapy ...

Social Care Wales, with funding from the Welsh Government, awards up to 224 new bursaries a year to students ordinarily ...

Number of new bursaries awarded in up 56% in 2025-26, following sharp fall in numbers in 2024-25, reports Social Care Wales ...

At the end of 2025, Hampshire County Council’s children’s services introduced a new pathway plan designed to safely support the process of children safely going home to their parents.

Councils grew social work workforce for third consecutive year , with number of filled posts up by over 800 in 2024-25 ...

Average pay for adult social workers rose by 1.3% in real-terms in 2024-25 but was 3.2% lower than 2016 levels ...

Councils grew social work workforce for third consecutive year , with number of filled posts up by over 800 in 2024-25 ...

Social work bursary reforms designed to increase numbers qualifying as social worker by better targeting support ...

DHSC says over 150,000 working-age adults will receive at least an extra £400 a year due to above-inflationary rise to minimum income guarantee, but ADASS warns councils have not been funded to delive ...

Capital limits for council-funded social care kept at levels set in 2010, meaning more people self-funding care ...