Birmingham social services management and other children protection agencies have been accused of having a ‘tendency to blame social workers’ when things go wrong in a review of the city’s
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Two thirds of London boroughs are yet to be accredited as London Living Wage employers; of the third that are accredited there has been slow progress in applying fair wages
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The bid to improve Norfolk’s children’s services department could be boosted by the creation of an ‘academy’ to produce social workers at the University of East Anglia. The council says
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Members of the union Unison at the social care charity Choice Support have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over changes to pay. Sixty-eight of 80 Unison
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What might social services look like in 2025? In 2013 IRISS ran a series of workshops to help us understand the technical, medical and cultural forces that will shape
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Legislation to enforce compulsory registration for the current phase of compulsory workforce registration is now in effect. Employers should be aware that under these Regulations, it is an offence for
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Care UK has revamped its benefits offering with the launch of an online portal to give nurses, carers and remote workers easy access to its employee reward scheme. The health
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The proportion of workers employed in the public sector is at its lowest level since 1999. New figures from the Scottish Government showed that in the third quarter of this
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Hiring intentions across the public sector have ‘flatlined’, with job losses remaining highest in local government, according to a survey. Charting responses from 2,100 UK employers, the Manpower Employment Outlook
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The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) invite you to take part in one of the Equal Partners in Care (EPiC) practice learning and sharing
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