The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is engaged in a battle with the BBC over a storyline in EastEnders.

Concerns are being raised about cuts to the number of mental health beds in Norfolk and Suffolk.

CARE costs could be reduced by 20% as a council begins a review of its learning disabilities system.

Improving a children’s services department in the West Midlands could take another year, a council said.

MITIE has moved into the expanding outsourced health and social care sector with the £111m acquisition of home care provider Enara.

Care for the elderly now ranks as one of the biggest issues likely to sway voters at the next election, new polling shows.

A social care charity has been fined £70,000 after confidential reports about four children went missing when left outside a house in London.

Health secretary says £1.7bn costs of cap on individual liability for care costs would be unaffordable

The Insitute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a leading UK think tank, has set out a proposal for a scheme called Frontline to recruit high quality graduates into social work careers.

Campbell Robb, the charity’s chief executive, warns that local people will lose the advice they need on housing and homelessness