Home care funding is £2bn short of what is required this year in England, a provider body has found.

Extra children's social care reform funding for family help and child protection takes total to £2.4bn from 2026-29 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Regulator has received 29% more concerns about social workers this year than last, undermining drive to tackle fitness to ...