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Ageing workforce poses problems for palliative social work
Palliative care social work faces recruitment problems in England after a survey revealed almost half of specialist practitioners were aged over 50.
07 December 2011
Quality in practice: how to ensure you recruit the best professionals
Social work recruitment specialist Jonathan Coxon offers tips for social work managers and interviewers when recruiting
26 September 2011
Graduate training scheme for adult social care management
Armed with a degree but no practical experience, the next generation of adult care leaders is being trained for a rapid rise through the ranks, reports Kirsty Mc Gregor
22 September 2011
Rolling out personalisation to mental health service users
A project led by Mind to tackle the low take-up of self-directed support among mental health service users has returned some positive results, writes Jeremy Dunning
05 August 2011
Good Practice: Reducing the cost of expensive residential placements
Hertfordshire Council has cut the costs of its residential placements in adult care while maintaining its level of service, reports Jeremy Dunning
17 September 2010
Social care workforce regulation in the UK explained
The divergence in social care policies introduced and proposed by the four home nations is matched by a similarly inconsistent approach to workforce regulation, writes Gordon Carson
16 March 2011
Children's commissioner to investigate sexual exploitation
England's children's commissioner, Maggie Atkinson, is to launch an investigation in the autumn into child sexual exploitation.
08 July 2011
Councils relieve pressure on children's social workers
Councils in England are beginning to relieve the pressure on frontline children's social workers despite ongoing high vacancy rates and heavy caseloads, a study has shown.
30 June 2011
Age UK reveals 'devastating' council cuts in elderly care
Councils are making 'devastating' cuts of 8.4% to older people's social care in England this year, hastening the 'collapse of a crumbling' system, warns Age UK today.
27 June 2011
Social workers say profession is poorly represented
Four out of five practitioners in England feel social work is poorly-represented at a national level, a survey has found.
13 June 2011
Pay-cut social care workers to take industrial action
Social care workers at Southampton Council are starting industrial action next week in protest at pay cuts of up to 5.5%.
17 May 2011
Social workers should speak directly to media, says Munro
Social workers should speak directly to journalists more often to try and improve the media coverage of child protection social work, the Munro Review has recommended.
10 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
Judge overturns council plan to raise eligibility to critical
Birmingham Council's plan to raise eligibility thresholds to critical has been overturned after a judge ruled it unlawful.
21 April 2011
Munro debate: Assessment timescales must not be abandoned
The Munro Review's interim report proposes freeing some councils from statutory timescales governing initial and core assessments. But this may cause children more harm, says Kirsten Anderson
15 April 2011
New regulator backs Unison's guidelines on whistleblowing
Guidelines on whistleblowing in social care published by Unison have been endorsed by the body set to take over the regulation of social workers in England.
07 April 2011
Proposal to scrap Youth Justice Board voted down by peers
The House of Lords yesterday rejected the scrapping of the Youth Justice Board after peers backed an amendment to the Public Bodies Bill calling for the body to be removed from the so called 'bonfire of the quangos'.
29 March 2011
Social care work across the UK's borders
Devolution has led to increasingly diverse agendas in the social care sector. Is this presenting more obstacles to social care workers hoping to transfer their skills to a new working environment? Gordon Carson reports
25 March 2011
Adult legal update on how councils must check the law before making cuts
As councils consider how to implement the spending cuts set out in this week's comprehensive spending review, one issue they must bear in mind is the law, writes Ed Mitchell
14 October 2010
Welsh cap care charges as fees for users go up in England
Community care charges will be capped at £50 a week from next month for service users in Wales, as their counterparts in England face mounting fees.
25 March 2011
