As our society becomes increasingly digitalised, figures reveal a large proportion of those not online have a disability or are elderly

Dying people could end up in hospital sooner – and so cost taxpayers more – if cuts to social care services continue, a report warns today.

Funding for social work is worse today than it has been at any time in the last three decades. That’s the view of Nick Lovell, a BASW Council member and a social worker with 27 years experience in the field, who says that amidst the pressure of working in the face of such deep cuts social workers need to remind themselves of why they do their job and the difference they make to people’s lives.

The owners of a care home in Cornwall must pay £135,000 after a resident fell to his death from a faulty window.

Social workers have called for a new power of entry for local authorities to facilitate access to adults at risk of abuse or neglect.