Staff not spotting early signs of risk of extrafamilial harm, while there is little evidence interventions are keeping ...

Proposal designed to give authority greater control over service delivery, while also reflecting national drift away from ...

Wiltshire Council an NHS partners have received the top grade from inspectors for their services for children with special ...

With the DfE having unveiled planned reforms to children's care placements, social workers shared their views on their impact ...

Council's director of children's services says Sara Sharif's murderers 'went to extreme lengths to conceal the truth' ...

Approach involving family help and specialist child protection teams to be extended across England, says chief social worker ...

Step Up to Social Work will also see some partnerships relax entry criteria or extend access to final-year degree students ...

Extra adult social care funding not enough to cover estimated extra costs from pay and national insurance rises, says ADASS ...

Hampshire County Council’s two refugee teams were launched in February 2023 to meet the needs of an increasing number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. While the local authority supported 106 ...

A senior hoarding practitioner describes a day spent working to tackle growing referral numbers while helping a student ...

Similar numbers of practitioners removed for not completing process as last year, as record 102,888 renew their registration, ...

Most social workers would consider working for an inadequate service, though for some it would depend on the role ...