How significant is the risk to new social workers from the seven-month gap before the early career development programme starts? The number of joint directors of children's and ad ...

Estimated number of AMHPs in England rises from 3,800 to 3,900, amid fall in turnover and vacancy rates, finds report ...

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel issues plan to enhance response to neglect, including by reviewing definition, examining evidence base for practice tools and providing guidance to ...

Disability rights groups criticise government's failure to produce Easy Read versions of Mental Health Act documents ...

Community Care's forthcoming online legal masterclass includes learning for social workers on children's social care law ...

People who sleep rough often have needs that go beyond housing, including trauma, mental ill-health and executive functioning ...

Former social worker Phil Holmes takes the helm of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) ...

National panel urges safeguarding partnerships to ensure they are notifying it of all cases they are required to report ...

A social worker recounts a week in which she considered how she balances self-care with responding to huge need ...

Community Care's forthcoming online legal masterclass includes learning for social workers on children's social care law ...

Social workers still struggling with rising needs and admin burden, finds employer standards health check 2026 ...