Overspending on adult social care budgets hits highest level in decade, in part due to NHS responsibilities being transferred to councils ...

Three social work experts provide advice to a student for getting onto an assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) scheme ...

A black service manager recounts how she came to understand the impact of structural racism within social work ...

Wayne Reid explains a new process he and colleagues have developed for documenting, analysing and addressing discrimination ...

Multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) practitioners are unsure over when and how to seek parental consent to share information ...

A local government pay deal has been agreed in Scotland after union members gave employers’ latest offer their backing. Members of UNISON, GMG and Unite all endorsed the two-year pay settlement, ...

We look at how the government expects councils to organise teams and practitioner roles to implement child protection and ...

Money comes from £560m allocated to developing children's homes and foster placements in government spending review ...