Evidence body Foundations calls for kinship carers to be provided with specialist workers to help them access support ...
It led to the decimation and fragmentation of the welfare state, the routing of public money to the private sector and ...
Number of personal assistants - who are employed by direct payment users - fell by 7,000 from 2022-23 to 2023-24 ...
Children's minister Janet Daby says family help is central to ambition "to rebalance the children’s social care system ...
Social workers from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council tell us why they love working there despite the challenges ...
The Employment Rights Bill would allow the government to create an Adult Social Care Negotiating Body to set pay and ...
Employers' body COSLA says local government pay deal, which is worth 67p an hour or 3.6%, will come into force despite UNISON ...
Jahnine Davis will be tasked with supporting councils to improve practice, amplifying children's voices and championing ...
Government agency social work rules will not reduce councils’ reliance on locums in children’s services, say practitioners. The rules, which will start to take effect at the end of this month, aim “to ...