The government’s policy of having social workers who investigate child protection cases chair conferences is wrong as it undermines impartiality, say practitioners. As part of the the Department for ...

Social workers told ST that the moves would be useful to supporting social workers if effectively implemented. Read more at ...

Child protection workers are often exposed to violence from clients, but their employers rarely provide them with support. This contributes to a high rate of job-related burnout and a high rate of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is concerned with a relatively unresearched area of child protection practice: the comprehensive assessment. The study comprises ...

BSS is the social service agency that runs the pre-school that Megan had attended. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

This paper argues that contemporary child and family social work in England and some other states in Europe needs an ethical ‘turn’. This paper considers the facts in the Re W judgment and identifies ...

A Los Angeles County judge ruled Monday that four social workers should stand trial on child abuse and other charges in the death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy they were assigned to protect, allowing ...

The government’s children’s social care reforms in England are “very likely to fail” due to the scale of change involved and the lack of testing. That was the damning verdict from Professor Eileen ...

Westmorland and Furness Council has agreed to approve social care reforms in their children’s service. At a meeting held by the Children, Young People and Families Scrutiny Committee held on October ...