Coronavirus
The latest updates, news and guidance on how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting on social work and social workers.

Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce
Social care given £120m to relieve workforce pressures as new variant drives spiralling absence rates

Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce
ADASS urges emergency workforce plan as NHS pressures and staff gaps risk ‘overwhelming social care’

Children, Coronavirus, Social work leaders
Should virtual child protection conferences become the new normal?

Almost 5,000 social workers removed from register now able to practise to bolster Christmas capacity

Worsening mental health, domestic abuse and poverty as support falls: social workers count cost of Covid

‘Before, there were peaks and troughs – with Covid, it’s relentless’: social work eight months into the pandemic

Coronavirus: 75% of social workers feeling more negative about their work-life than last year, survey finds
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