Report reveals adoption breakdown rate highest with teenagers
The most comprehensive study ever to be carried out into adoption in England has confirmed that the rate of breakdown is lower than anticipated, but it also reveals a stark
Read MoreThe most comprehensive study ever to be carried out into adoption in England has confirmed that the rate of breakdown is lower than anticipated, but it also reveals a stark
Read MoreAround 15 million people are “living on the edge” despite the improving economy, a report by a debt charity has warned. Stepchange said that these people are either falling behind
Read MoreA boys’ home in Northern Ireland being examined for claims of abuse provided a “warm and caring” environment, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has heard. The comments were made by
Read MoreA free phone app to help social workers in England plan and evidence their professional development via their tablets and smart phones is now available to download for Apple and
Read MoreHealth Minister Edwin Poots has announced a programme of actions to promote quality and good governance across Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. Speaking in the NI Assembly,
Read MoreA new initiative aimed at improving the quality of older people’s care homes has been launched in Northamptonshire. Called My Home Life, the scheme offers training and support to managers
Read MoreIt seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus
Read MoreThe College of Social Work has today launched several key documents outlining the moral and financial case for investing in adult social work. With the current population of ten million
Read MoreThe mother of a Chesterfield teenager who hanged himself in a young offenders’ institute custody cell has told how she was shocked by the attitude of prison officers whom she
Read MoreFollowing discussions, Skills for Care and the National Skills Academy for Social Care have agreed, in principle and subject to contract, to merge their organisations. Both parties anticipate that the
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