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Sharpen your children's social care legal knowledge with training from leading barristers - Community Care

Community Care's forthcoming legal masterclass includes learning for social workers on children's social care law

Showing kindness takes minutes: how adults' social workers are championing trauma-aware practice - Community Care

Hear Essex County Council practitioners discuss the value of being trauma aware in social work

The hidden strengths and costs of being a social worker with ADHD - Community Care

A seasoned social worker with ADHD details the neurodiversity traits that strengthen her practice and their hidden costs

DfE takes over running of children's ASYE for final year - Community Care

Skills for Care no longer able to deliver assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) on behalf of Department for Education, meaning changes to how employers access funding to support newly qualified social workers

The Mental Health Act 2025 summarised - Community Care

Tim Spencer-Lane explains how the Mental Health Act 2025 reforms the law on detaining people with mental health needs

Social work career progression limited outside management, say practitioners - Community Care

Most social workers believe career progression opportunities outside management are limited

Is becoming emotional in front of those you support wrong? - Community Care

A social worker with over 20 years' experience reflects on getting emotional in front of those she supported

DHSC to review adult safeguarding law urgently in response to Casey concerns - Community Care

Review will examine whether current adult safeguarding powers and duties work effectively in high-risk situations

Adult safeguarding failures being repeated due to lack of national oversight, warns Casey - Community Care

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

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

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

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

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

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

Concerns were raised that DfE's proposed standards would be 'overwhelming' for newly qualified social workers

'What studying burnout taught me about surviving social work' - Community Care

A social work student reflects on the insights her dissertation provided into burnout in the profession

'How family group decision making can connect children with relatives overseas' - Community Care

Family group decision making can help support overseas care placements for children, says Carolyn Housman

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

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

'What neurodivergent social workers are up against today - and how to help' - Community Care

BASW's Neurodivergent Special Interest Group reflect on the progress since its launch and the barriers that remain

Neurodiversity belongs in social work: a campaign celebrating the profession's diverse minds - Community Care

Community Care’s new campaign will spotlight stories from neurodivergent social workers, to celebrate neurodiversity

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

Early career development programme for children's social workers to go live in September 2027

Supporting people in crisis who have no recourse to public funds: an AMHP’s view - Community Care

AMHP Abul Hussain discusses how he approaches working with people with no recourse to public funds in crisis

'My manager kept me in social work after my granddaughter's death' - Community Care

A senior social worker celebrates the manager who created a safe space for her to regain her confidence in her practice and professional identity following a family loss

'Why so few men feel they belong in children's social work' - Community Care

Gender stereotypes about care are dissuading men from entering social work, argues Jason Loffman

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

About a third of referrals for gang involvement, criminal exploitation and missing episodes were re-referrals, finds DfE

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

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

AI in social work: national guidelines needed on appropriate use, finds study - Community Care

Social Work England-commissioned report highlights opportunities and risks of AI in social work, and lack of guidance

Social workers fully accountable for use of AI tools, despite lack of training and guidance, finds report - Community Care

Though social workers see benefits of using AI transcription tools, safeguards on their use are inconsistent

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

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

Shift in child protection practice needed to tackle parental non-engagement, finds review into baby's death - Community Care

Social workers need support to build trust with parents, finds Mark Gordon and Constance Marten case review

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

32 councils responsible for social care granted over £1bn in exceptional financial support in principle for 2026-2

Kinship families ‘an afterthought’ in Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund overhaul, say charities - Community Care

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund overhaul geared towards adoptive, not kinship, families, say charities

How can social workers progress without becoming managers? - Community Care

Four social workers discuss progressing without stepping into management and how practitioners can do the same