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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Workplace discrimination not handled well by employers, say social workers Despite social work bodies' frequently professed commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion, practitioners say ...

There is still a significant stigma attached to both mental illness and having financial issues, leading some people to hide ...