Incoming directors of children's services are now being offered a year of coaching following a 12-month training programme ...
Most social workers in Wales have seen their financial position get worse over past year, finds research for Social Care ...
Cafcass social workers will no longer refer to domestic abuse "claims" in new policy, designed to ensure better protection ...
Labour’s first months in office have not landed well among social workers, a Community Care poll has found. Since taking power in July, the party has cancelled a planned cap on care costs and ditched ...
Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessors’ lack of social work experience was among criticisms of the regulator’s approach to assessing English local authorities shared with a damning review of the ...
This week, Community Care Inform launches a learning hub on executive functioning to fill that gap.
Carer’s allowance is worth £81.90 per week and is paid to people aged over 16 who cares for someone who claims a qualifying ...
Evidence body Foundations calls for kinship carers to be provided with specialist workers to help them access support ...
It led to the decimation and fragmentation of the welfare state, the routing of public money to the private sector and ...