Prime minister allocates £340m in extra cash for policy and signals five-year programme to provide homes and support ...

Review finds little policy on social work professional development from the Department of Health and Social Care beyond the ...

Councils overspent their 2025-26 adult social care budgets by over £700m on back of NHS cuts, report directors ...

Ministers' decision not to create regional children's services authority criticised by charities and social work expert ...

Social workers cautious about expansion of statutory social care to cover targeted early help, finds Community Care poll ...

Minister says Families First Partnership programme funding must be used to shift services towards earlier intervention and improve child protection, and says councils will have cash withdrawn if they ...

CQC also finds safeguarding weaknesses, but says councils broadly performing well in face of significant challenges ...

Inspection reforms would see councils downgraded for placing children in illegal homes, as Ofsted flags concerns about unregistered provision being ...

Existing county and unitary authorities will be overhauled in latest phase of local government reorganisation, as ministers pledge funding to help bolster leadership capacity across children's and ...

Hear South Gloucestershire Council practitioners discuss the unexpected benefits of moving from agency to permanent.

How confident are you that Social Work England can address fitness to practise delays in light of the recent independent ...

Complaints practitioner Elizabeth Stennett argues for a systemic approach in responding to social work complaints ...