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 ...

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

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

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

Just 303 visas were granted to overseas care staff in July to September 2025, when ban on recruitment from abroad was ...

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 ...

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

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