Social care leaders

News, practice and comment for social work and social care senior managers

Adults, Children, Mental Health, Workforce

Social services prepare for radical reduction in number of councils

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Care minister paves way for independent appeals against council social care decisions

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Adults, Workforce

Councils fear care loans will put a massive strain on their budgets

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Workforce

Social workers can be critical of senior managers at times, but do they truly understand the role?

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Your latest Care Bill reading list

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Workforce

Crisis for care providers: why latest legal ruling makes it necessary to reform commissioning practices

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Adults, Workforce

Short-term and cost-driven care planning blighting lives of people with learning disabilities

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Rachael Wardell

Adults, Children, Workforce

‘I think I’ve found my spiritual home’: from the private sector and Ofsted to the social care director’s chair

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Adults, Workforce

What adults’ services chiefs should be doing to prepare for overhaul of adult care law

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Adults, Workforce

Using ‘asset-based social work’ to enable older people to stay independent

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Joe Warner, managing director, Focus

Adults, Workforce

Swapping care management for community development: running social work as a social enterprise

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Adults, Workforce

Law to overhaul social care clears first hurdle in Commons despite Labour opposition

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Adults, Workforce

Sector looks on with dismay at lack of progress on transforming care post-Winterbourne

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Adults, Workforce

No decline in number of learning disabled people placed in hospitals since 2010

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Adults, Workforce

Winterbourne View improvement programme loses top two leaders

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Adults, Workforce

Mental Capacity Act code of practice under review but progress slow due to lack of civil servants

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