Handbook on local authority designated officer (LADO) role follows review sparked by 'major' failings relating disabled ...

National safeguarding panel leads criticism of DfE's cost-driven decision to stop planned introduction of non-instructed ...

Rosie R's latest poem follows a young boy who has clanged onto the memory of his mother through a Google Maps snapshot ...

Most social workers support the legalisation of assisted dying, a Community Care poll has found. The Terminally Ill Adults ...

Councils will receive £22.6m in delayed adult social care innovation funding next week, the government has confirmed. It confirmed today that the second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) ...

Association of Palliative Care Social Workers says people seeking an assisted death will need social support from a ...

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to CV writing and hiring in children’s social work. Managers will have slightly ...

ADASS says national insurance increase and national living wage rise have landed councils with £1.8bn in extra costs ...

Two-thirds of care services say they will have to make redundancies while 57% will have to hand back contracts to ...

Agencies are not equipped to protect children from sexual abuse within the family, safeguarding leaders have found. Children are too often ignored or disbelieved by practitioners who lack the ...

A social work deputy team manager celebrates her former supervisor and now team manager whom she credits as an inspiration in ...