With Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards caseloads at record levels, a national tool to help councils prioritise applications ...

Approach Social Work will be new name for fast-track training scheme run by Frontline social work organisation ...

A council has outsourced a mental health service in order to cover a strike by its social workers. Barnet Council has engaged ...

LGA urges political parties to commit to 'significant and sustained increase in funding for councils' and social care ahead of 2024 election ...

Almost a quarter of positions (23.1%) were advertised as either part-time, part-time or full-time or available on a ...

Hampshire County Council children's services leaders talk about their culture of innovation, including through its new family ...

A social worker details struggling to connect with the child they were supporting and how supervision helped them overcome ...

The government has stopped funding social work teaching partnerships, sparking sector concern that progress brought about by ...

Social Work England’s interim chair has been reappointed after the government failed to recruit a permanent leader for the ...

Life story work can play a key role in helping care experienced children and young people understand their family background ...

Community Care has gathered some of the leading legal experts to deliver a masterclass on the Mental Capacity Act for social ...