The government will give the NHS an extra m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system Integrated care boards ICBs will be able to use the money to buy beds in...

Yorkshire Urban and Rural Teaching Partnership would like to congratulate of our Social Work professors Following a recent global study on career impact in the profession two professors from University of Huddersfield have been recognised for their contributions to Social Work The study provides the first empirical picture of leading social work scholars from...

There is a mixed picture in relation to tackling racism on assessed and supported year in employment ASYE programmes the latest analysis of children's services schemes has found While there had been a general improvement in discourse around racial diversity...

Recently we caught up with Donna a social worker based in Essex Donna has been a social worker since and during that time has maintained her passion for helping children and families upon hearing about the Pathways Programme she jumped at the chance to apply Find out about Donna's experience of the first Pathway residential below...

Social care staff have been worst hit by long Covid among occupational groups in the UK figures have revealed An estimated of sector staff reported long Covid symptoms in the four weeks up to December having first...

The Scottish Government must pause its 'disruptive' plans to remove social care from council control in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in - That was the message this week from the Convention of Scottish...

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years Leaders of two of the main provider organisations...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Canadian social workers were surveyed about early adversities mental health and resilience Bivariate analysis n was conducted to understand relationships between predictor and outcome variables and logistic regression analyses were conducted for depression post-traumatic stress disorder anxiety and resilience The impact of pandemic-related factors was also investigated The results indicate that social workers are experiencing concerning levels of mental health issues with significantly lower levels of...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt In this article we apply theories of non-citizenship assemblage to conceptualise the dynamic relationship of social determinants of health for international students in Canada who face barriers to accessing COVID- vaccines and verifying their vaccination status Social workers' roles in responding to and reducing these inequities are also discussed with attention to micro practice meso service integration and macro public policy advocacy Through theorising assembled inequities...

Turning is an important milestone in any young person's life But for young people who need social care it also marks the transition point between children's and adults' services -- a process that has traditionally been a challenge in...