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

Ensuring that practitioners have access to wellbeing support, and flexible working arrangements and the chance to network ...

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

Community Care's forthcoming mental health masterclass will dissect how current legislation will reform the Mental Health Act ...

Probe into Sara Sharif's killing by father and stepmother finds multiple points at which different actions should have been ...

Cafcass chief executive Jacky Tiotto says social workers are increasingly relaying victims' disclosures to the family courts ...

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

The long-lasting impact of trauma on children post adoption has been laid bare by research that charts the huge toll on ...

Most social workers endorse concerns from fostering leaders about rising levels of racism against staff from minority groups, ...

Independent social worker Sumayya Hanson celebrates a practitioner she once managed, who is passionate about helping women ...

A project shaped by care experienced people has identified what matters to care leavers - and how different this is from what ...

Number of child protection plans for sexual abuse and cases in which CSA was identified following assessments remains far ...