Chris Badger, currently director at Hertfordshire council, will take responsibility for CQC's assessments of councils and ...

A trans social worker details the struggles he faced when coming out in his workplace, including being misgendered and ...

Law Commission will examine different legal orders for children in kinship care and the scope to simplify the law ...

Care minister Stephen Kinnock says introduction of LPS 'under review' but he is not entirely persuaded that it would achieve ...

Louise Casey's audit of group-based child sexual exploitation highlights 'mismatch' between case numbers recorded by police ...

Following a rise in covert recordings of social workers in child protection cases, we asked practitioners whether parents ...

Payments equivalent to national minimum fostering allowance would be given to carers with, or applying for, court orders to ...

UNISON says threat of strike action forced COSLA to make revised offer of 4% pay rise in 2025-26 followed by 3.5% increase in ...

Practitioner turnover greater among younger than older children in care and among those on section 20 agreements, show DfE ...

Chief social work adviser role will be put on statutory footing as part of creation of National Social Work Agency within ...

Singeta Kalhan-Gregory will be employed by BASW Cymru to help improve social work practice with minority ethnic communities ...