A charity has warned care funding is not enough to cope with an ageing society as BBC-commissioned research suggests half of residents in some areas will be aged 50 plus by 2029.

Some councils in England fear budget pressures will hit care services which help elderly and vulnerable adults live at home, a BBC survey has found.

The government has given assurances to the Social Work Reform Board (SWRB) that it wants it to continue its work and complement the Munro inquiry into child protection, delegates at the National Children and Adults Services conference were told.

Social work must be championed to be recognised as a distinct profession in the same way as medicine, according to the chief executive of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

The College of Social Work is not yet ready to take on the responsibility of speaking on behalf of the profession, the body’s co-chair has admitted.

Reoffending is higher among criminals who are locked up than do community sentences – with 74% of ex-inmates at one prison convicted again within a year

Social care leaders will unveil their vision of how public services should support vulnerable people and call for the Government to set out its plans.

When a social worker finds themselves in the spotlight it’s generally because something has gone wrong. Jane Haywood explains why the profession needs to learn to hog the limelight

Meeting the challenge of co-production in adult social care can seem both essential and impossible. We look at how the sector can move to a “no decisions about me, without me” approach

Directors of children’s services have a “moral imperative” to help other councils improve their provision, to fill the gap left by less national and regional improvement support, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.