Social work bursary reforms designed to increase numbers qualifying as social worker by better targeting support ...

DHSC says over 150,000 working-age adults will receive at least an extra £400 a year due to above-inflationary rise to minimum income guarantee, but ADASS warns councils have not been funded to delive ...

Capital limits for council-funded social care kept at levels set in 2010, meaning more people self-funding care ...

Social Work England probing causes of sharp rise in fitness to practise referrals, which it says reflects wider trends ...

Siobhan Maclean shares her experience of neurodivergence and provides advice to fellow social workers in a free webinar ...

Fee income 2% higher than expected after hike in charges did not prevent more social workers renewing registration ...

Government confirms additional funding for councils' adults' and children's social care services over next three years ...

Broad welcome from social care bodies for government plan to increase foster care place numbers by 10,000 by 2029 ...

How a charity helped a young asylum seeker win compensation from a local authority after it wrongly disputed his age ...

The government has launched consultations on reorganising responsibility for social care in a sixth of England's council ...

NHS social workers in England and Wales to get 3.3% rise in 2026-27, with Northern Ireland staff awaiting confirmation ...

Most social workers believe there are no meaningful career progression opportunities besides stepping into management, a poll ...