Around 5,000 (mainly female) staff at Birmingham Council, including care workers, have won their case for equal pay at an employment tribunal, the BBC reports today.
This reflects worrying findings reported by Community Care earlier this month that male managers in adult social care earn at least £1 an hour more than women who do the same jobs.
Could this pave the way for female care workers across the country to claim back differences in pay?
Tim Chittleburgh's decision to run for re-election as chair of the British Association of Social Workers raises some familiar questions about the organisation's governance.
Over the years there have been well-documented leadership tensions between various chief executives and chairs of BASW. Ray Jones, for example, resigned from his role as chair in 2006 citing a clash with chief exec Ian Johnston as the reason.
A social worker who lied about her historic criminal convictions when applying to become a foster carer has been admonished for four years by the General Social Care Council.
Janet Thomas-Dill omitted her middle name when undergoing her first Criminal Records Bureau check in September 2004. This led to her receiving a clear result with no previous convictions recorded.
I was sitting in the audience of a social care conference last week thinking of some questions I could put to a professor I was meeting later that day, when I found myself being asked a rather difficult question by the lady speaking at the front.
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