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Social workers promised reduced information burden
Social workers would be able to spend more time with clients under plans to improve data sharing with the NHS, set out in a 10-year information strategy today.
21 May 2012
Hospital visits lower for care home than home care clients
Care home residents are less likely to end up in hospital than users of intensive home care, research has revealed. (Image: Alamy)
29 March 2012
How the police can help social workers assess risk
Former senior police officer Nigel Boulton looks at how the police approach risk and why the future lies in multi-agency assessment teams, as now being investigated by the Munro Review
18 March 2011
Social workers 'marginal' to integrated care pilots
Social care professionals were 'marginal' to flagship government pilots designed to integrate support for people with long-term conditions, an evaluation has concluded.
22 March 2012
MPs: Unify health and social care to tackle funding shortfall
Adult care and health should be brought under a single commissioner in each area to improve support for older people and help solve social care's funding crisis, the health select committee, chaired by Stephen Dorrell (pictured), said today.
08 February 2012
900 adult care staff join NHS in biggest integration deal yet
Nine hundred adult social care staff, including social workers, will be transferred to the NHS to create the biggest integrated health and social care provider in the UK, it was confirmed today.
(Image: Rex Features).
13 January 2012
Social workers 'must join renewed effort to integrate care'
Social care professionals should be at the heart of multi-disciplinary teams in every area to manage the care of people with long-term conditions and make a reality of integrated care, the government has been told.
05 January 2012
Dramatic rise in child protection vacancies in NHS
Vacancy rates in NHS child protection posts are rising dramatically a survey of local safeguarding children boards has found.
21 October 2011
Multi-agency safeguarding centre for children's referrals
The final Munro Report recommended councils look at new "gatekeeping" methods in children's social care. Judy Cooper investigates a multi-agency hub
07 June 2011
Social Work Reform Board: the contexts and organisations capability
The Social Work Reform Board has set out what is expected of social workers at every stage of their
careers. Kirsty McGregor explores how reform could see practitioners gaining the power to shape the changes that affect them and service users
10 June 2011
Multi-agency working 'needs advanced agreement to split costs'
Social workers may have to sign contracts with other agencies when agreeing to payment by results-based early intervention services
10 June 2011
Community health partnerships failing, says Scottish watchdog
A watchdog has found that many community health partnerships in Scotland are poorly managed and have failed to deliver improvements, despite spending £3bn a year.
03 June 2011
Key back-bench Tory urges full health and social care merger
Former Tory health secretary Stephen Dorrell (left) called for provisions to fully integrate health and adult social care to be incorporated into the government's health reforms.
16 May 2011
Educating the NHS in personalisation
Imagine a world in which the vision for social care was to give ownership and control of care provision to social workers. By Alex Fox
12 May 2011
Munro calls for DCS role to be protected
The Munro review has called on the government to protect the role of the director of children’s services and criticised moves by some councils to either split children’s services from education or to combine children and adult’s services.
10 May 2011
Princess Anne warns cuts could harm multi-disciplinary working
EXCLUSIVE: The Princess Royal (left) has voiced concerns that cuts in public services could harm multi-disciplinary working, undermining support for service users and carers. (pic: Rex features)
06 May 2011
Health and social care merger at heart of Scots election
Radical plans to merge health and adult social care are at the heart of the Scottish election campaign, with all of the major parties putting forward proposals to bring the two services together.
07 April 2011
New ADCS president wants more radical solutions to SEN
The new president of the Association of Director’s of Children’s Services has set out his ambition to help make the green paper on disabiilty and special educational needs "more radical".
05 April 2011
Abuse goes unchallenged in name of partnership working
Potential elder abuse can go unchecked by social workers because they fail to stand up to professionals in partner agencies. Angie Ash reports
28 March 2011
Woe for families as NHS staff bypass social workers
Social workers are being bypassed by NHS staff when patients are discharged from hospital, putting "extreme pressure" on families, a report warns today.
23 March 2011
