About Mithran Samuel

Mithran Samuel is editor of communitycare.co.uk You can find him on X/Twitter at @mithransamuel and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithran-samuel-68738021/ Email Mithran with feedback on your experience of the site at mithran.samuel@markallengroup.com

Author Archive | Mithran Samuel

Bridget Phillipson and Wes Streeting

Social work leaders, Workforce

Watchdog escalates Social Work England fitness to practise concerns to cabinet ministers

Continue Reading
The words 'continuing professional development' written on the page of a pad which is sitting on a table alongside a pen and a plant

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England: no checks on CPD sample following registration renewal for second year running

Continue Reading
A man's pointing hand next to the inscription mandatory on yellow background

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

No criminal sanction for failing to report child sexual abuse under mandatory reporting plan

Continue Reading
A person's forefinger pushing a green computer key with the words 'CPD continuing professional development' written on it

Social work leaders, Workforce

90 hours of CPD requirement dropped for social workers in Wales

Continue Reading
A professional man talking to a mother and child

Children, Social work leaders

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to continue with £50m for 2025-26

Continue Reading
registration printed on rubber stamp

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England watchdog praises speedier response to overseas registration requests

Continue Reading
Image of march 31 on a wooden coloured calendar, next to sandtimer on white background

Children, Social work leaders

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund expires with no news on future

Continue Reading
A note pad with 'do you feel valued?' written on the front

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers least likely to feel valued of adult social care staff groups, find survey

Continue Reading
Social Worker of the Year Awards trophies

Workforce

Social Worker of the Year Awards 2025 opens for entries

Continue Reading
Kim Leadbeater MP

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers to be allowed to opt out of assisted dying process

Continue Reading
Prime minister Keir Starmer standing in the cabinet room in 10 Downing Street

Children, Social work leaders

Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

Continue Reading
Pay gap image

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Experienced care workers earn 4p per hour more than new staff, reveals Skills for Care

Continue Reading
The word 'benefits' spelt out in blocks on top of the yellow page of a notepad

Adults, Social work leaders

Over three million families to lose out from disability and incapacity benefit changes, says DWP

Continue Reading
Headline Standards on note pad; office desk with electronic devices, computer and paper, wood table from above

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

Continue Reading
A female social worker speaking to a young man

Adults, Workforce

Think Ahead raises concerns about mental health social work job cuts in call for thousands more roles

Continue Reading
Legislation, Office Binder on Wooden Desk. On the table colored pencils, pen, notebook paper

Children

Bill to end profit from children’s care in Wales becomes law

Continue Reading