Employers will have to pay £525 to enable overseas staff to obtain visas in future , up from £239 currently, adding to ...

Health minister hails success of ban on health and social care trusts using locum social workers, but BASW NI warns of rising ...

The principal social worker and principal occupational therapist at Wiltshire Council describe how collaborating closely ...

Reflective question suggestions for use in supervision with a student, taken from a Community Care Inform guide ...

Available data do not enable councils to determine whether they are purchasing the right kinds of care placement, says ...

Flagship policy to create national care service overhauled after significant opposition in Scottish Parliament and from local ...

Staff shortages pose a risk to government plans to bolster the safeguarding of the growing number of children not in school, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president has ...

Unions have lodged their claims for an increase in pay for local government staff in Scotland this year. UNISON has called for a 6.5% rise in 2025-26, while the GMB and Unite have jointly urged an ...

A book review of This Isn't Love, the second autobiography from Hope Daniels about her childhood in care and its adult legacy ...

Guidance on improving caseload management and administrative support for social workers is being developed by a group set up by the government to identify solutions to high workloads in children’s ...