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 ...

Three social workers discuss what meaningful, strengths-based supervision looks like, and what happens when it’s missing ...

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

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

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

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

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

Following the ADCS president's suggestion that councils pay families in need to enable children to remain at home, we asked ...