Employers in England have been issued with guidance on implementing recently introduced rules to reduce use of agency staff ...

With the 2024-25 local government pay dispute settled, we gauged social workers' opinion on who held responsibility for the ...

With the government failing to cover social care for the cost of tax increases, fears will have grown over its fair pay plans ...

Lane outlines how the Mental Health Bill would revise provisions and safeguards around detention and treatment ...

Increased costs of care from national living wage and employer national insurance rises add to existing pressures, say social ...

Mental Health Act reform would raise thresholds for detention and limit sectioning of autistic people and those with learning ...

A mental health social worker nominates her "compassionate" manager for seeing the "best in everyone she supports" ...

Numbers receiving adult social care in 2023-24 at levels last seen in 2017-18, while authorities also boosted reablement provision ...

It is “impossible” to meaningfully assess the effectiveness of child in need (CIN) plans because of their lack of clear measures of success. That was the warning from Children’s Commissioner for ...

Two social workers share their experience of returning from maternity leave and how Essex County Council has supported their ...