When family difficulties mean that children are at risk of abuse or neglect and face being taken into care or becoming candidates for adoption, how can their fathers be brought
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The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has published a review on their work in qualifying social work education in England in the period from 1 August 2012 to 31
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Prisoners at a high security jail studying criminology have scored higher marks than some of the university students they were working alongside in a ground-breaking academic course. The Inside-Out programme
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London South Bank University (LSBU) has accredited and helped develop three innovative new online courses in Obesity Care and Management, including the UK’s first completely online Masters degree in the
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A partnership between the University of Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire County Council is strengthening social care in the county. The university and county council are working collaboratively to organise a series
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A new professional watchdog for social workers will improve training and drive up standards, Nicky Morgan has declared. The new regulator will put the profession on a par with surgeons
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One of the UK’s leading researchers in social work has joined the Cardiff University. Professor Donald Forrester has been appointed as Professor in Child and Family Social Work and new
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Michelle Brown, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Derby, has recently published a book to support healthcare and nursing professionals working in palliative and end of life
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A nursing expert at Robert Gordon University (RGU) has co-authored a practical guide which provides a new insight to implementing person-centred care. Dr Lisa Kidd, Reader at the university’s School
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A university-developed alert system, designed to assess the needs of people caring for terminally ill loved ones, has featured prominently in the recently published National Institute for Health Research Better
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