PSW magazine

Fran Hill knows only too well how it feels to be fostered. Now a published author, she has written a novel inspired by her experiences. LOUISE PALFREYMAN reports...

As the cost of living spirals and children are home alone there are mounting fears more could come into care or face exploitation...

Participants to receive £1,600 a month and monitored for mental and physical health

The NSPCC has uncovered a lack of specialist support across the UK for children who have experienced sexual and domestic abuse.

Oxford University research finds for-profit outsourcing is "consistently associated" with placement instability

Officers should still attend in "situations where there is no other appropriate agency" says AMHP Leads Network

Two student apprentices, a qualified social worker via the apprenticeship route, a social work lecturer and two employers share their experiences of the four-year-old programme

Stef Lunn, social work lead for a software supplier, believes smart use of technology holds the key to resolving an age-old tension in practice

With rapid advances in artificial intelligence, we should be asking urgent questions about its implications for social work and the people it supports, says Christian Kerr

Two social work academics supporting displaced people in Lviv give their firsthand accounts of the trauma of war