As the Council of Europe’s GRETA (Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings) today releases a report on trafficked children, BASW is supporting GRETA’s call for better services and more specialist trained staff.

An investigation into the death of an elderly woman has revealed gaps in the understanding of domestic abuse in old age, experts warn.

BASW is urging social workers to use today’s World Suicide Prevention Day to begin confronting taboos about suicide and depression, as a preventative film is launched with part funding from the Association.

Ahead of Joan Bakewell’s BBC Panorama investigation of older people’s drinking habits, BASW has launched a guide aimed at spotting the signs of alcohol abuse, and expressed concern that the excesses of this group can be overlooked by hospitals.

Biggest spending falls in deprived areas reflect coalition’s town-hall budget cuts, says Labour

Social care professionals have been invited to suggest practice issues for a new research project to focus on. The project is intended to provide workers with quick and easy access to academic research that could help them address key decisions in social care practice.

Dame Jo Williams, chair of England care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that she is resigning from her post and will step down as soon as a successor is appointed, commenting:

Nearly one in three children lives with a parent who is a binge drinker, research shows. The figure equates to between 3.3 million and 3.5 million children in the United Kingdom living with at least one parent who downs six or more drinks on a single occasion for women or eight for men.

Nearly £8 million was spent on agency staff in five years by Cambridge City Council, which filled middle-ranking posts at an annual cost of up to £92,000 each.

The UK government’s ‘work capability assessment’ for sick and disabled people has been revealed to be blatantly unfair, and decisions are frequently overturned on appeal.