Rise driven by concerns from members of the public, the overwhelming majority of which are rejected by regulator at initial ...

A social worker with over 20 years’ experience reflects on supporting a child experiencing domestic abuse early in her career ...

Domestic abuse by adult sons against mothers differs from intimate partner abuse. Hackney council has developed an approach ...

Social workers have called the 2025-26 local government pay settlement a 'bad deal', but are split on where the fault lies ...

Social workers face a sharp hike in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (Dols) cases following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. All people who lack the capacity to make decisions about their care and ...

Mental healthcare for children in care often relies on unevidenced concepts and approaches that deny them effective ...

Cafcass and ADCS says practitioners should hold meeting before filing final evidence in order to provide shared explanation ...

Brid Featherstone and Kate Morris share findings from their research into the role of domestic abuse and poverty in children ...

North West authority receives lowest grade for adult social services after CQC finds culture of making decisions for people ...

Rebekah Pierre discusses the impersonal process of receiving her care records and how councils need to better support care ...

National Social Work Agency chief executive will hold dual role as chief social work adviser to ministers, say Scottish ...

Over 100 practitioners, managers, teams and organisations shortlisted for Social Worker of the Year Awards 2025 ...