The BASW Social Media Policy, launched today, emphasises how Facebook, Twitter and other similar online platforms offer the means to benefit social work practice, boost CPD opportunities and open up new ways of supporting service users.
 

Social work managers ignored requests to visit a woman being abused by her partner days before he killed her in front of their toddler, according to leaked documents.

Seven day centres across Lincolnshire could close by April. Facilities in Lincoln, Sleaford, Louth, Boston and Market Rasen will close if the recommendations are approved.

Everyone will face a new compulsory charge to pay for elderly care under plans outlined by Labour to revive the so-called “death tax”.

UNION bosses fear patient care could be put at risk as a result of planned “savage” cuts to pay and conditions of more than 750 nurses and other staff.

A CARE agency has been told it needs to make urgent improvements after breaking national regulations in the Poole area.

COMPLAINTS about adult social care services at a South Yorkshire council have risen by more than a tenth in a year.

The complex relationship between health, social care services, the NHS and local authorities could jeopardise the implementation of telehealth services, a new report has warned.

A social worker from Margate whose life was left in ruins following his infatuation with a 16-year-old girl he was supposed to care for was today struck off the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Carers in Reading are being asked to sign up to a new “dignity charter”. Reading Borough Council hopes it will drive up care standards when dealing with vulnerable adults.