Regulator has received 29% more concerns about social workers this year than last, undermining drive to tackle fitness to ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...