National safeguarding panel leads criticism of DfE's cost-driven decision to stop planned introduction of non-instructed ...

Handbook on local authority designated officer (LADO) role follows review sparked by 'major' failings relating disabled ...

To address such concerns, the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers (APCSW) – which is neutral on the bill – has ...

Most social workers support the legalisation of assisted dying, a Community Care poll has found. The Terminally Ill Adults ...

ADASS says national insurance increase and national living wage rise have landed councils with £1.8bn in extra costs ...

Rosie R's latest poem follows a young boy who has clanged onto the memory of his mother through a Google Maps snapshot ...

However, councils have withdrawn social workers from integrated teams despite benefits for patients, finds study on out of ...

Major providers will have to share financial information with government to tackle 'profiteering' in children's social care ...

Children too often ignored or disbelieved by practitioners who lack the skills and confidence to combat infrafamilial child ...

Two-thirds of care services say they will have to make redundancies while 57% will have to hand back contracts to ...

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