Community Care

Casey: governments have 'abdicated responsibility to protect adults from abuse'

Baroness Casey warns adult safeguarding failures are being repeated across England due to lack of national oversight ...
Community Care

DfE slims down social work standards following concerns proposals would be 'overwhelming' for practitioners

Department halves number of knowledge and skills expectations that will be placed on children's social workers after two ...
Community Care

'Obsessive. Compulsive. Social Worker: how living with OCD shapes my practice'

A social worker living with OCD explains how the condition shapes his practice and helps him connect with young people ...
Community Care

Training schemes for experienced social workers to launch next year, says DfE

Department for Education to launch advanced child protection and leadership schemes for experienced social workers ...
Community Care

Councils to test paying kinship carers to look after children who would otherwise go into care

Kinship carers of 5,000 children who would otherwise have gone into care will be paid an allowance to care for them ...
Community Care

ASYE replacement limited to social workers carrying out statutory duties, says DfE

It also said that the ECDP would be launched in September 2027, with the final ASYE programme running in 2026-27. The latter will be administered directly by the DfE after Skills for Care, which had ...
Community Care

Neurodiversity belongs in social work

Today, Community Care is launching the ‘Neurodiversity belongs in social work’ campaign to shine a spotlight on the diverse minds that make up the social work workforce, and challenge a system that ...
Community Care

Lowest pay rise for care workers in six years as employers struggle with increased costs

Care worker pay in independent sector rose by 5% over past year, lagging behind rise in national living wage - report ...
Community Care

Sharp drop in number of social workers on ASYE in children’s services

Almost 20% fewer children's social workers started assessed and supported year in employment programmes in 2024-25 ...
Community Care

Children experiencing extra-familial harm have highest re-referral rates, DfE analysis shows

Children experiencing extra-familial harms have the highest rates of re-referral to social care in England, a Department for Education (DfE) analysis has found. About a third of referrals to ...
Community Care

One in five councils likely to receive government bailouts to balance books in 2026-27

One in five councils with social services responsibilities in England are likely to be given government bailouts to enable them to balance their books in 2026-27. Thirty-two authorities have been ...