Striking parallels in how managers behaved in the Horizon Post Office scandal and over the murder of babies by nurse Lucy Letby contain important lessons for the social work profession, says Brian Littlechild.
There has been a 63 per cent increase this year in the number of social workers applying for financial help from the Social Work Benevolent Trust, the BASW Annual Members Meeting heard.
Some will have started the new year mourning for a loved one. As the UK Covid death toll passed 150,000 this week, retired social worker Ian Collard reflects on losing his partner of 45 years