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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

What do you think of Andy Burnham's national care service plan? Care worker qualification rates in England have continued ...

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

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

Regional hourly limits on what councils pay employment agencies for social workers will stay in place until 2027 ...

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: ...

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