A study of newly qualified social workers has found that most wanted to quit after a year because of a combination of work pressures and lack of support.
BASW has welcomed a report that says social workers could not have anticipated Shannon Matthews’s abduction or her mother’s involvement in it.
A new website offering social workers practical advice on human rights has been launched by two leading global social work organisations.
BASW issued a firm welcome to a UK government plan to publish serious case reviews in full, with identifying details removed.
The £23 million local social work improvement fund will be available to local authority children’s services in 2010-11, the new Department for Education has confirmed in a written parliamentary...
The poor and vulnerable are being forced to bear the costs of bailing out the banks, International Federation of Social Workers president David Jones told the World Conference on Social Work in Hong...
A social worker has been removed from the social care register for frequently accessing pornography at work during his time employed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
A top United Nations official has called on social workers to collaborate with the UN on achieving the millennium development goals to cut world poverty.
Local authorities could see an increase of more than a third in the number of children going into the care system in 2011-2012 based on predictions from recent increases in child protection referrals...
A new review of child protection work promises to cut down on the paperwork confronting social workers in their jobs.