Ombudsman upheld 80% of complaints it investigated relating to assessment and care planning by local authorities in 2023-24 ...

Policy, which is designed to tackle homelessness among care leavers, will also apply to domestic abuse survivors and armed ...

Charity urges financial boost for kinship care arrangements outside care system, after finding fear of lost support is ...

Cabinet secretary announces plan to provide new social work apprenticeship in Scotland, which will be available for graduates ...

A manager reminisces about the supervisor who challenged her cynicism and whose approach to social work supervision she has ...

Professor Ray Jones reflects on his 50-year career in social work, the fragmentation of services today and the need for less ...

Sarah McClinton will take up post in January 2025, a year after Lyn Romeo left role, while Robert Lewis becomes mental health ...

Advice from a Community Care Inform webinar on key considerations when undertaking life story work with children in foster ...

The government has appointed Social Work England’s interim chair to the role on a substantive basis. Andrew McCulloch, who has overseen the regulator since Lord Patel’s resignation in February 2023, ...

As the social work profession remains predominantly female, we asked practitioners whether there is a need for more male ...

A social worker with experience of 14 years working part-time reveals some unexpected benefits of this work pattern ...

The government has scrapped the second round of the adult social work apprenticeship fund. The £4m payment would have enabled ...