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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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

Social workers and their families are suffering because of ineffective fitness to practise processes, warns Social Workers ...

Project also developing response plan should children's trusts fail financially, as adviser recommends 'inadequate' council ...