Available data do not enable councils to determine whether they are purchasing the right kinds of care placement, says ...
Flagship policy to create national care service overhauled after significant opposition in Scottish Parliament and from local ...
Staff shortages pose a risk to government plans to bolster the safeguarding of the growing number of children not in school, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president has ...
Unions have lodged their claims for an increase in pay for local government staff in Scotland this year. UNISON has called for a 6.5% rise in 2025-26, while the GMB and Unite have jointly urged an ...
A book review of This Isn't Love, the second autobiography from Hope Daniels about her childhood in care and its adult legacy ...
Moments into our conversation, Lemn Sissay kindly grounds me with a sobering truth. Before our meeting, I’d spent most of the previous year conducting interviews that reflected on social work over the ...
Guidance on improving caseload management and administrative support for social workers is being developed by a group set up by the government to identify solutions to high workloads in children’s ...
A recent survey by Social Work England found that most social workers feel unvalued by society, but is that true?
Staff vacancy numbers in adult social care services fell last year, early data suggests. As of December 2024, 7% of roles in independent sector adult social care providers in England lay vacant, down ...