Children in care among most likely to develop mental health difficulties, but often denied care, finds Fonagy Review ...

ADCS says Ofsted plan to penalise councils for using unregistered homes would hold authorities to unattainable standard ...

Lack of training and workload issues creating barriers to practitioners offering people direct payments, finds report ...

News Care-experienced children among groups least well served by current mental health system, finds review . Today , says probe into ...

Yvette Cooper announces collective pension scheme for care staff in England following lobbying from UNISON, which warned that ...

Review follows research which found rapid growth in number of centres has come in absence of strategy or strong evidence ...

Glasgow City Council also drops immediate threat of 'fire and rehire' process for staff over equal pay dispute ...

Social Work England and fellow regulators have pledged to produce a set of high-level principles guiding how they will regulate the use of artificial intelligence by health and social care ...

Practitioners more likely than not to support legalisation of assisted dying, following failure of latest effort to reform the law Photo by Community Care Assisted dying retains social work support, ...

Andy Burnham has pledged to provide free personal care for older people, but given no such promise to working-age disabled adults, under planned reforms announced this week. A statement on the ...

The prime minister's pledge of free personal care for older people would not address many of the issues facing sector ...

Social workers say employers are failing to take steps to keep them safe, despite frequent verbal abuse during visits ...