However, practitioners raise concerns about lack of provision for working-age adults in PM's national care service plan ...

Social worker Patricia Cunningham reflects on how an encounter with one man transformed her approach to case recording ...

Frontline wins contracts to deliver all five schemes in DfE's national social work professional development offer ...

The late Dave Fry was named joint overall social worker and given the lifetime achievement award for his 51-year career ...

Association's concern comes as academic criticises Covid-19 Inquiry's lack of focus on people with learning disabilities ...

PMs promises ministerial meeting over case of parent carer Matilda Davis, who took her own life after safeguarding visit ...

Inspection reforms would see councils downgraded for placing children in illegal homes, as Ofsted flags concerns about unregistered provision being increasingly used to facilitate criminality Image: ...

Proportion of adult social care services rated good or outstanding rose from 69% to 74% in 2025-26, shows CQC report ...

DfE children's social care director highlights challenges of calculating the right level of profit for care providers ...

Regulator's £30m budget for 2026-27 is £4m up on the amount it spent in 2025-26, as it seeks to tackle rising number of fitness to practise referrals in order to resolve social workers' cases more ...

DfE has provided what works body with up to £85m for a maximum of 10 years to continue its work evaluating and building ...

Practitioners report varying impacts on their confidence when families or adults request a new social worker, with over a ...