Opposition members warn measures to regulate agency work in children's services may exacerbate workforce shortages ...

Employers will have to pay £525 to enable overseas staff to obtain visas in future , up from £239 currently, adding to ...

Health minister hails success of ban on health and social care trusts using locum social workers, but BASW NI warns of rising ...

The principal social worker and principal occupational therapist at Wiltshire Council describe how collaborating closely ...

Reflective question suggestions for use in supervision with a student, taken from a Community Care Inform guide ...

Several councils have less than one full-time member of home education staff, meaning workforce is insufficient' to take on ...

Flagship policy to create national care service overhauled after significant opposition in Scottish Parliament and from local ...

Available data do not enable councils to determine whether they are purchasing the right kinds of care placement, says ...

Unions have lodged their claims for an increase in pay for local government staff in Scotland this year. UNISON has called for a 6.5% rise in 2025-26, while the GMB and Unite have jointly urged an ...

Anyone who has read Hope Daniels’ first book, The Sunday Times bestseller Hackney Child, will know that when she was nine, she walked into Stoke Newington police station with her two younger brothers ...

Guidance on improving caseload management and administrative support for social workers is being developed by a group set up by the government to identify solutions to high workloads in children’s ...