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Amid concerns over the financial state of private children's homes, Claire Barcham says its time to reinvest in therapeutic-focused local authority-run places

BASW England publishes critical findings following consultation with members

Ahead of Book Week Scotland, social work academics Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Ariane Critchley look at what poetry has to teach social workers

Call for better training of professionals and improved support services in wake of worrying survey

Family pays tribute to 'pillar of community'

David Steggall says clown theory has vital lessons for social work

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

Social Workers Union call after its research finds more than 80 per cent of job ads are for full-time roles

Private agencies 'hoovering up' newly qualified social workers should be better regulated or ‘preferably’ banned, according to Steve Crocker, Director of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services.

He set out his vision of a ‘not-for-profit care system’ where newly qualified social workers aren’t enticed into agency work at the recent ADCS annual conference.

Louise Pashley who led a turn around Rotherham's leaving care service at a time of intense media focus