Reduction in adult social care staff shortages between March and December 2024 follows two years of falling vacancy numbers, ...

Staff at Cafcass, England's biggest social work employer, given 4.43% increase, backdated to April 2024, following pay talks ...

Research carried out before Budget unveiled estimated £2.8bn in additional costs for adult social care finds providers facing ...

The chief social worker for children and families remembers the life and work of the mind behind the family safeguarding ...

Alex Wright is a reporter for Comms Business, a sister publication of Community Care, which is running the Fit to Switch ...

In the wake of the right care, right person policy, we gauged social workers' opinion on police withdrawing from mental ...

A rising number of women who died in pregnancy or shortly after giving birth were involved with social care, says Kirsty ...

Government will introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse legislation this spring, reviving policy dropped by ...

Norfolk County Council has taken a number of steps to improve and innovate its fostering service and provision of residential ...

Lack of adequate housing, welfare reforms and families lacking access to public funds loading pressures on children's ...

Three-month review to probe current scale and nature of gang-based child sexual exploitation, says home secretary Yvette Cooper ...

Experts will cover issues including the legal framework around adult safeguarding and the link with the Mental Capacity Act ...