Policy dubbed 'a grave injustice' to overseas care staff, as provider and worker bodies warn proposal will deepen sector's ...

Most practitioners were still to complete process of securing their right to practise as of mid-November, show Social Work ...

Minister Josh MacAlister says forthcoming plan to 'improve and expand fostering' will cut numbers placed away from their ...

Two black social work leaders detail their journey to management and the advice they'd give to black practitioners starting ...

Action Against ASGSF Changes says children's minister showed no willingness to engage with impact of Adoption and Special ...

Commissioner finds care experienced children's first contact with criminal justice system often occurred after they went into ...

Fall in care population driven in part by reduction in number of unaccompanied asylum seekers, while data also shows rise in ...

Work pressures and staff shortages continue to result in lost learning, while some social workers also making regular use of ...

After a report urged workload limits for social workers calculated by algorithm, practitioners say it could work so long as ...

Napo and Cafcass enter talks to resolve dispute over members' rejection of 2025-26 pay offer at family court body ...

Ensuring that practitioners have access to wellbeing support, and flexible working arrangements and the chance to network ...

Cafcass chief executive Jacky Tiotto says social workers are increasingly relaying victims' disclosures to the family courts ...