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The latest episode of the podcast miniseries Social work around the world delves into the lives of two social workers who left Zimbabwe to continue their careers in England. I speak to Theresa Kambani ...

Social workers are divided on whether councils should make payments to struggling families to prevent children from going into care, a poll has found. This follows the Association of Directors of ...

In June 2025, the government announced a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) to oversee reviews of multi-agency safeguarding failures, prompted by Baroness Casey’s ...

Most social workers are concerned about current reforms to children’s social care in England or feel they will be actively bad for families, a poll has found. The results follow warnings from ...

The context The government has placed even greater emphasis on the need for social workers to engage with birth parents and families, both to avoid children becoming looked after in the first place ...

The two principal social worker (PSW) networks have raised significant concerns over Social Work England’s decision to raise practitioner fees by a third in the face of overwhelming opposition. The ...

SWAS aims to provide South Asian social workers with a space to share experiences and challenge the stereotypes that afflict practice ...

The shortage of adopters in England has continued to grow leaving more children facing long waits to be placed, official figures have shown. There was a shortfall of 750 adopter families as of March ...

Social Work England’s hike in practitioner fees is “unjustifiable” and based on a “tokenistic consultation”. Those were the warnings from UNISON and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), ...