The head of the care review has welcomed the government's response to his report but has urged it to go further and faster Josh MacAlister who led the Independent Review of Children's Social Care said today's Department for Education response...

Sector bodies have heavily criticised the government's provision of one-fifth of the resources called for by the care review to reform social care in its response The Department for Education has allocated m over two years to its children's social...

The appointment of specialist social workers to lead child protection cases will be piloted while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers the government has said in its response to the care...

The theme for this year's LGBTQ month is 'Behind the Lens' celebrating those who have contributed to sharing our culture through cinema To start a conversation from this idea we wanted to look back on history to highlight a few key moments of LGBTQ visibility in the UK since the first Pride march took place in the UK on st July...

Social Work England has found broad support from the profession for its proposed expectations of students' knowledge and skills on graduation Following a consultation the regulator will now move ahead with plans to assess social work course providers against a...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt This study used nationally representative data from the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey to investigate correlations between older people's productive aging activities and their life satisfaction The results show that volunteering and grandparenting are positively associated with life satisfaction in older adults although more so in the rural sample Furthermore working is positively associated with life satisfaction in urban older adults while an opposite relationship was...

The family safeguarding model pioneered by Hertfordshire County Council from is one of the big success stories of social work in England in recent years The model involves teams of children's social workers and specialist adults' practitioners working in...

Unions are seeking a pay rise for council social workers and other local authority staff in England Wales and Northern Ireland for - UNISON GMB and Unite today demanded a rise two percentage points above the retail prices index...

A leading judge has excoriated the government and Parliament for a six-year failure to address judicial warnings about a chronic shortage of secure care for children in extreme crisis However Sir Andrew McFarlane has detected signs of hope in an...

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package according to NHS data The figure revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures came as council leaders criticised ministers for a...