After government's decision to scrap second round of social work apprenticeship funding, it reveals 74 councils shared ...

Latest family court statistics also shows deprivation of liberty order applications far outstripping those for secure ...

Bridgend's west integrated network team celebrates a social work assistant who is now taking the leap to become a social worker ...

Money will be paid in October to cover the burdens on authorities of reporting on their use of agency social workers ...

Social Work England drops practice of checking 2.5% of practitioners' records after current renewal round due to review of ...

Police chiefs say Right Care Right Person policy partially explains reduction in officers' use of Mental Health Act power ...

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

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 ...

Andrew McCulloch appointed to oversee Social Work England, having already performed chair's role for over 18 months ...

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