Our director of adult care on why the systems and processes overtaking principles and values make you want to cry

The British Association of Social Workers have expressed surprise after receiving a letter from the Nation Audit Office making reference to an ‘assessment exercise’ designed to determine the organisation best placed to oversee the development of a College of Social Work.

Last week’s sixth annual Social Worker of The Year Awards saw senior figures and frontline workers debate a series of issues including universal health care, adoption in the media and the growth of adult co-operative models.

Social workers should seek to implement relationship-based practice models in order to deliver better outcomes for service users, a BASW-sponsored conference was told.

The government is to overhaul the way people in England are checked to see if they are suitable to adopt children.

A local authority has apologised after a computer error led to hundreds of people paying too little for their social care.

Nurses are stepping up their campaign to get ministers to toughen up the regulation of healthcare support staff in England.

At least 8,750 new foster families need to be found across the UK in the next 12 months to avoid a crisis in the care system, the Fostering Network has claimed.

After a recent raft of criticism the Care Quality Commission says more resources are now being put into a new inspection regime, writes Alan Rosenbach, the watchdog’s special policy lead

Diagnosis rates of dementia have increased by just two per cent to 43 per cent in the past year. This means most people with the condition are still being left without vital support and treatment.