With the 2024-25 local government pay dispute settled, we gauged social workers' opinion on who held responsibility for the ...

With the government failing to cover social care for the cost of tax increases, fears will have grown over its fair pay plans ...

Mental Health Act reform would raise thresholds for detention and limit sectioning of autistic people and those with learning ...

Lane outlines how the Mental Health Bill would revise provisions and safeguards around detention and treatment ...

Increased costs of care from national living wage and employer national insurance rises add to existing pressures, say social ...

A mental health social worker nominates her "compassionate" manager for seeing the "best in everyone she supports" ...

Two social workers share their experience of returning from maternity leave and how Essex County Council has supported their ...

Children's Commissioner Rachel de Souza urges tighter guidance on child in need support after finding most plans lacked ...

Universities report poverty and cost of living pressures a factor in reduced number of social work students in Scotland, says ...

Numbers of referrals, assessments, children in need and children on child protection plans fell from 2022-23 to 2023-24, ...

Numbers receiving adult social care in 2023-24 at levels last seen in 2017-18, while authorities also boosted reablement provision ...

Social Work England has set out its expectations of graduates on joining the profession in England. It has published 82 statements covering the knowledge, skills and behaviours the regulator believes ...