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 ...

Several councils have less than one full-time member of home education staff, meaning workforce is insufficient' to take on ...

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 recent survey by Social Work England found that, of 2,120 respondents, 75% disagreed that social workers were valued by society. This is despite previous research for the regulator finding that 74% ...

Staff vacancy numbers in adult social care services fell last year, early data suggests. As of December 2024, 7% of roles in independent sector adult social care providers in England lay vacant, down ...

Moments into our conversation, Lemn Sissay kindly grounds me with a sobering truth. Before our meeting, I’d spent most of the previous year conducting interviews that reflected on social work over the ...

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 ...