Report criticises treatment of children in care outside their home areas and under supervision of youth offending teams

Plymouth City Council has announced the appointment of a new key senior manager to lead children’s social care in the city.

A new PR coaching programme has been launched exclusively for health and social care service providers.

St Martin’s Care Ltd has been issued with a fixed penalty notice by CQC for failing persistently to comply with national standards on the safe management of medicines.

We must encourage a culture where people are confident to report their concerns or else scandals like Winterbourne View will continue to happen, by Steve Scown

BASW is advising social workers not to blur professional boundaries during the festive season and to think about the consequences for their own privacy and safety.

BASW’s Special Interest Group (SIG) on Alcohol and Other Drugs has produced five pocket guides, to put basic information, hints tips and reminders, literally into the hands of frontline practitioners.

Recent successes in reducing crime and reoffending rates across England and Wales could be jeopardised by cuts to the youth justice service and by the marginalisation of the social work role, MPs have been warned.

Early years professionals are braced for an imminent government announcement on changes to child and staff ratios in childcare settings.

Survey reveals 88% of newly qualified social workers find it difficult to fit in training, while 63% feel they don’t get enough supervision in their first year in the job