Researchers from the University of the West England are calling for changes to the UK residential home care system to ensure older people have a ‘home for life’ and are not pushed out to hospitals or nursing homes unnecessarily.

More than a third of social workers and police officers say they have felt powerless to intervene in suspected cases of child neglect, research reveals

Two social workers who have admitted they failed to protect Baby P from his abusers will be free to work with vulnerable children within months.

Child protection services in Bristol are good, according to an inspection report. The regulator Ofsted introduced the checks for safeguarding in June last year.

A new operatic production, the Lion’s Face, which has just premiered at Brighton festival, is a rare theatrical engagement with Alzheimer’s.

A social worker who began writing an anonymous blog as a “form of catharsis” has won a coveted Orwell prize, according to a British Association of Social Workers (BASW) report. Writing under the pseudonym Winston Smith, the social worker scooped the national award for his accounts of working as care home worker.

A television film crew will today begin following children’s social workers in Birmingham, after the director agreed to “open the doors” of his department in a bid to improve public understanding of social work.

A motion from BASW’s Black Country branch expressing “major concerns” about cuts in services under cover of the personalisation agenda also received overwhelming support. 

Social work must speak with a united voice if it is to meet the enormous challenges ahead, BASW’s 40th anniversary Annual General Meeting heard.

The General Social Care Council was heavily criticised for a punitive attitude to social workers compared with the other UK care councils. Lily Robertson, who represents social workers in conduct hearings, accused the GSCC of inconsistency in its approach to alleged misconduct, with some people “who have done nothing wrong feeling the full brunt of the care council’s powers”.