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...