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.

Six out of ten people with dementia are undiagnosed, it has been found, as MPs launch an investigation into how to pick up missed patients.

The whistle-blowing helpline for NHS staff is being extended to staff and employers in the social care sector from 1 January. There is also a new number for the service, which encompasses all of the elements of the current helpline service and is free, independent and confidential.

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.

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.

At least 8,750 new foster families need to be found across the UK in the next 12 months to avoid a crisis in the care system, the Fostering Network has claimed.