Four UK authorities will be entitled to create a single, locally co-ordinated pot designed to reduce duplication and cut costs

HOMELESSNESS is on the rise, and more people are predicted to be on the streets this Christmas as a result of the economic crisis. Charities are warning that the situation will only get worse when welfare reform and cuts to housing services start to bite next year.

ABUSE victim Joshua Jones could have been saved if doctors, social workers and the police had taken evasive action after discovering he had non accidental injuries, an inquest has heard.

Our director of adult care on why the systems and processes overtaking principles and values make you want to cry

The British Association of Social Workers have expressed surprise after receiving a letter from the Nation Audit Office making reference to an ‘assessment exercise’ designed to determine the organisation best placed to oversee the development of a College of Social Work.

Last week’s sixth annual Social Worker of The Year Awards saw senior figures and frontline workers debate a series of issues including universal health care, adoption in the media and the growth of adult co-operative models.

Social workers should seek to implement relationship-based practice models in order to deliver better outcomes for service users, a BASW-sponsored conference was told.

The government is to overhaul the way people in England are checked to see if they are suitable to adopt children.

A local authority has apologised after a computer error led to hundreds of people paying too little for their social care.

Nurses are stepping up their campaign to get ministers to toughen up the regulation of healthcare support staff in England.