Rebekah Pierre discusses the impersonal process of receiving her care records and how councils need to better support care ...

Over 100 practitioners, managers, teams and organisations shortlisted for Social Worker of the Year Awards 2025 ...

Three social workers discuss what meaningful, strengths-based supervision looks like, and what happens when it’s missing ...

Despite social work bodies' commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion, practitioners say employers are failing to ...

A social worker celebrates his colleague, who supported him and the service while he was absent due to bereavement ...

The latest episode of the podcast miniseries Social work around the world delves into the lives of two social workers who ...

How social workers deal with threats to their professional identities is key to their retention, research has found ...

Social workers are divided on whether councils should make payments to struggling families to prevent children from going into care, a poll has found. This follows the Association of Directors of ...

While welfare reform is at the centre of current UK political debate, the relationship between poverty and domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is little understood. As part of the team behind the Child ...

In June 2025, the government announced a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) to oversee reviews of multi-agency safeguarding failures, prompted by Baroness Casey’s ...

The context The government has placed even greater emphasis on the need for social workers to engage with birth parents and families, both to avoid children becoming looked after in the first place ...

There is still a significant stigma attached to both mental illness and having financial issues, leading some people to hide ...