Home care funding is £2bn short of what is required this year in England, a provider body has found.

Extra children's social care reform funding for family help and child protection takes total to £2.4bn from 2026-29 ...

Policy dubbed 'a grave injustice' to overseas care staff, as provider and worker bodies warn proposal will deepen sector's ...

Action Against ASGSF Changes says children's minister showed no willingness to engage with impact of Adoption and Special ...

Fall in care population driven in part by reduction in number of unaccompanied asylum seekers, while data also shows rise in ...

Commissioner finds care experienced children's first contact with criminal justice system often occurred after they went into ...

Two black social work leaders detail their journey to management and the advice they'd give to black practitioners starting ...

Minister Josh MacAlister says forthcoming plan to 'improve and expand fostering' will cut numbers placed away from their ...

Most practitioners were still to complete process of securing their right to practise as of mid-November, show Social Work ...

After a report urged workload limits for social workers calculated by algorithm, practitioners say it could work so long as ...

Work pressures and staff shortages continue to result in lost learning, while some social workers also making regular use of ...

Napo and Cafcass enter talks to resolve dispute over members' rejection of 2025-26 pay offer at family court body ...