A research project in Essex on the impact of personal budgets found they almost always contributed to a positive experience, by Sanah Sheikh

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has hailed Surrey County Council for being social work pioneers. He praised the authority for setting up an independent organisation to give deaf people and the hard of hearing more personalised care.

New research by the Third Sector Research Centre challenges some of the assumptions driving the push for partnership working and scaling up of third sector organisations.

The vast majority of older people want to die at home, but very few achieve it. How can extra-care housing help? By Chloë Carter and Dylan Kneale

More than 80 per cent of social care workers are in favour of a new ‘power of entry’ so they can protect adults who they believe are at risk of abuse or neglect by family members or carers.

The Government has promised to provide more nursery places for disadvantaged two-year-olds. But is it willing to pay for thousands of extra trained carers?

The acting chief executive of the BASW explains how her experience as a teenage carer influenced her career choice

Almost two-thirds of funders aren’t perceived to build evaluation support into funding, by David Pritchard

CARE provider has transformed its staff training scheme in the wake of an abuse scandal uncovered by a BBC Panorama investigation.

Supporting people who raise safety concerns in the public interest, and working together to affect a difference in NHS culture is the aim of a new charter.