English councils paying home care providers £8 per hour less than they need, as fee rises meet just over half of additional ...

When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up, so the saying goes. In 2021, when Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council’s ...

A social worker with over 20 years’ experience reflects on a difficult conversation early in her career and what she would ...

Despite half of English councils taking part in the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard, most social workers are ...

CoramBAAF summarises its new form to help practitioners meet statutory requirements in relation to adoption support planning ...

Foundations' director of evidence, Aoife O'Higgins, discusses its work to identify what works in children's social care and ...

Despite being four times as likely to experience mental health conditions as peers, provision for children in care is ...

Family Justice Council guidance highlights risks of covert recordings to children and suggests practitioners offer overt ...

Three social work leaders explore the benefits of multidisciplinary teams across diverse settings and the challenges of ...

By taking part in Community Care's annual jobseeker survey, you will help us influence what employers offer in a social work ...

Using the 6Ts will help you to develop positive, honest and effective relationship-based practice with parents with learning ...

DfE provides Social Work England with £5.2m in extra resource for 2025-26, which it plans to use in part to reduce fitness to ...