Following union members rejecting Cafcass' 2025-26 pay offer, practitioners seem divided on standardised pay across statutory ...

Clenton Farquharson raises concerns about adult social care users bearing costs but being excluded from decision making on ...

Just 303 visas were granted to overseas care staff in July to September 2025, when ban on recruitment from abroad was ...

Josh MacAlister says that rollout of regional care co-operatives will be sped up and it will become future model for care ...

Councils will still be graded by Ofsted in relation to children needing help and protection, children in care, care leavers ...

Two in five social workers say families are drawn into “intrusive enquiries”, as DfE data reveals number of child protection ...

Councils having to balance financial sustainability with doing the right thing for those who need adult social care, says ...

National living wage, which is paid to thousands of care workers, will increase to £12.71 an hour in April 2025 ...

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea says migrant care workers are being subject to racism, exploitation and damaging ...

Policy dubbed 'a grave injustice' to overseas care staff, as provider and worker bodies warn proposal will deepen sector's ...

Fostering data shows scale of challenge facing Josh MacAlister in achieving aim of creating surplus of foster carers to give ...

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are getting bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. That was the ...