An experienced socail worker reflects on the anxiety and pressure following a high-profile child death, and the tools that ...

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 ...

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

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

Councils will still be graded by Ofsted in relation to children needing help and protection, children in care, care leavers ...

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

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

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 ...

Two in five social workers say families are drawn into “intrusive enquiries”, as DfE data reveals number of child protection ...

National living wage, which is paid to thousands of care workers, will increase to £12.71 an hour in April 2025 ...