Charity also finds widespread disparities in recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers ...

Social Work England says practitioners' progress on completing renewal tasks was slower than in 2023 as of end of September ...

As more councils employ AI in social work to save time on admin, sector bodies call for regulation to address ethical ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Charity urges financial boost for kinship care arrangements outside care system, after finding fear of lost support is ...

Policy, which is designed to tackle homelessness among care leavers, will also apply to domestic abuse survivors and armed ...

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

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