Human rights committee calls for overhaul of failing children’s care system
The children’s social care system is leaving care-experienced young people dangerously unsupported as they enter adulthood, with urgent reforms needed to protect their rights and improve lifelong outcomes, a parliamentary committee has warned.
How leaders can use healing conversation to ease emotional exhaustion in social care
The pace and pressure of work across social care increasingly leaves people physically and emotionally
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New video helps care-experienced people access their records
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a new video aimed at helping care-experienced people understand their rights when accessing personal care records.
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The Odyssey actor Himesh Patel narrates film on summer holiday poverty
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Smokers encouraged to butt out in Yorkshire campaign launch
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Urban woodlands linked to reduced antidepressant use
New study suggests finds that people in deprived communities are less likely to use medication
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Give disabled people the means to live, campaigners tell MPs
Disability campaigners have written to Andy Burnham asking him to improve social and palliative care
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Brain receptor could shed light on suicidal thoughts
Researchers in the Netherlands have identified a possible biological marker in the brain linked to
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Disabled people invited to shape future of PIP
Registration now open for workshops to guide the recommendations made by Timms review in personal independence payments. People with disabilities and/or a
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Brexit reshaped NHS recruitment but failed to ease doctor shortages
Ten year ago, the Brexit referendum triggered a seismic shift in where the UK recruits
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Carer’s Allowance ‘cliff edge’ affects parents’ work choices
Earnings rules for Carer’s Allowance are limiting the amount of paid work many parent carers
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The senior carer who began her career at 10-years-old
Long before working at Hatherleigh Nursing Home, Phoebe explains how she discovered, from a young
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Fake care recruitment company shut down after visa sponsorship scam
A fake care recruitment company that conned overseas workers out of more than £19,000 by
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‘Everybody needs somebody rooting for them’: Emma Williamson on supporting care-experienced children
Emma Williamson, Deputy Leader and Lead Member for Children’s Services at Cumberland Council, talks to us about her journey into the role and why helping others has always been at the heart of her work.
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The final weeks before Isabelle Welsh’s murder raise troubling safeguarding questions
The murder of Isabelle Welsh has prompted national outrage and raised serious questions over safeguarding
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Children’s care costs six times more than Eton – what’s gone wrong?
As the Competition and Markets Authority investigates England’s children’s social care market, David Rankin of
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What problem is the National Care Service trying to solve?
The prospect of an Andy Burnham-led government has accelerated discussion of a National Care Service
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Odds are they win: The battle to break gambling’s grip on football fans
Haringey, Barnet, Camden, Enfield and Islington joined forces with councils nationwide on the ‘Odds Are
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