Following union members rejecting Cafcass' 2025-26 pay offer, practitioners seem divided on standardised pay across statutory ...
Clenton Farquharson raises concerns about adult social care users bearing costs but being excluded from decision making on ...
Just 303 visas were granted to overseas care staff in July to September 2025, when ban on recruitment from abroad was ...
Josh MacAlister says that rollout of regional care co-operatives will be sped up and it will become future model for care ...
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea says migrant care workers are being subject to racism, exploitation and damaging ...
Councils will still be graded by Ofsted in relation to children needing help and protection, children in care, care leavers ...
Cafcass social workers responding better to child and adult victims of domestic abuse but some say caseloads are too high, says Ofsted ...
A social worker pays tribute to a collague who supported her while she was transitioning from children's to adults' social ...
The number of fostering households in England has fallen for the fourth consecutive year, despite a £36m investment in recruiting and retaining carers from 2023-25. As of March 2025, 42,190 households ...
Two in five social workers say families are drawn into “intrusive enquiries”, as DfE data reveals number of child protection ...