Too many people who use community mental health services are not being involved in decisions about their own care. A major national  survey of more than 13,000 people who use

A consultation has been launched to look at new ways of funding placements for social work students. A consultation has been launched to look at new ways of funding placements

The important role played by independent social workers (ISWs) in care proceedings should be safeguarded, concludes a new report which is based on the views of senior judges. A senior

Charity launches Now I Know, a £20m appeal and campaign to promote and fund programme in primary schools “It’s about making things that might be difficult to talk about not

In some cases older LGBT people in sheltered housing and care homes have hidden their sexuality When same-sex marriage became law in July this year it was a victory for

Older people who want to downsize their homes should be helped to do so, “freeing up” billions of pounds of housing stock, a think tank says. Those interested in downsizing

Crime victims aren’t getting the same level of support as offenders, the Victims’ Commissioner told justice workers in Cumbria. Baroness Helen Newlove made a passionate plea for the various agencies

An inquest into 19 unexplained deaths at a Sussex care home has heard claims that a woman was left with a broken bone, medication was not given and another woman

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has accused Ofsted of unfairly downgrading children’s centres, after latest inspection figures showed more than half are failing or require improvement. Leitch fears that Ofsted is

English councils referred 112,000 cases of alleged abuse against vulnerable adults for investigation in 2012-13 provisional figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show. This is a