?Resilience? is often cited as a key feature that individual social workers require to protect their wellbeing and emotional health. However, to what extent does the development and maintenance of resilience lie with individual workers?
The latest social work news, updates, and events including what’s happening in the world of children’s social work.
The Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) has called on other parties to ensure that their manifestos "contain similar commitments".
It warned that "children in the UK have some of the worst outcomes when...
The charity has revealed in its 2018/19 annual report that 92,000 parents, carers and children accessed its early support through children's centres.
This is down on the previous year's figure of 143,500...
Ahead of Brexit, all EU nationals living in the UK need to prove their immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme in order to remain in the country.
After the scheme was launched, it was billed...
The report, Hot Food Takeaways: Planning a route to healthier communities published by food campaign charity Sustain, says councils should find ways to incentivise healthier food outlets to open near schools...
Steve Kay was replaced as DCS by the council's deputy chief executive Joanne Hewson after his departure was announced last Friday.
Kay, a former youth worker, will leave the authority at the end of...
Supporting adolescents who have got caught on the wrong side of the law to voluntarily engage in community projects can serve as a way for them to make amends. It can also enable them to see the value in being an asset to their community, while additionally picking up new skills.
Up to 450 bursaries at NVQ Levels 2 and 3 are expected to be awarded in the first year of the fund, as part of the NYA's national initiative to help grow the workforce.
Placements will be co-ordinated...
Over the weekend, the Liberal Democrats pledged 35 hours for children as young as nine months old, in working families.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party confirmed its early years election pledge to extend...
Senior Research Fellow at HSCWRU, Dr Mary Baginsky, reports from a conference that took place in Komotini, Greece,1-3 November. (456 words) I spent last week in the small Greek city of Komotini which nestles in the foothills of the Rhodope ? Continue reading ?