High caseloads and skilled team managers quickly climbing further up the career ladder are two of the challenges employers cite when it comes to providing effective supervision finds Judy Cooper

Alex Turner meets the social workers investing time and energy into ensuring their work revolves around supervision

Effective supervision requires strong leadership and organisational policies as well as highly trained supervisory staff argues David Lawlor director of the Centre for Social Work Supervision and Consultancy

Gloucestershire council is tackling poor retention rates with targeted investment in social worker pay and development

Employers must address shortage of quality social work placements that is damaging graduates employment prospects says think tank co founded by education secretary Michael Gove

Care minister Norman Lamb has called for everyone from frontline staff and service users to managing directors to submit ideas on how to make the home care system work

James Kilgour continued to claim he was a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy but his membership had been withdrawn after it emerged that he had formed an inappropriate relationship with a client

A detailed investigation is needed into why none of the 132 black British African applicants to Step Up proceeded beyond the assessment centre stage according to an evaluation of the programme

Employers say a larger pay rise would lead to hundreds of job losses

The practitioner admitted losing sight of the necessary safeguarding standards and procedures the Health and Care Professions Council heard

Southwark council has agreed in principle to Unison s ethical home care charter and is working with local providers to find out how they could raise pay and conditions for this group of staff

The awards recognise the excellent work that takes place in the profession and celebrate the outstanding achievements of social workers across England

The social work regulator has agreed to let Lisa Arthurworrey remove herself from the register more than 10 years after high profile death of Victoria Climbi

Letters released under the Freedom of Information Act show a number of government departments are taking action over non compliance with national minimum wage regulations in the care sector

Forensic social work can prove a test of social work values but can also be highly rewarding reports Andy McNicoll

England and Scotland may have been united since 1707 but social workers who move between the two could find it as different as traversing the channel to work in France finds Craig Kenny

The College of Social Work has taken the first step towards setting out a list of activities only qualified social workers should be allowed to do

Lyn Romeo has been tasked with leading the reform of adult social work at government level Here she sets out her top priorities

The social worker initially concealed the relationship from her employer and left confidential case files related to other service users lying around the house the Health and Care Professions Council heard

Former assistant director Isabelle Trowler who advised Professor Eileen Munro on the redesign of children and families social work in England has been chosen by the Department for Education to lead reform in the profession

Education secretary Michael Gove pictured has confirmed that the team behind Frontline has his full support to begin recruiting graduates from September

Camden s Lyn Romeo will work closely with the chief social worker for children whose name will be announced by the Department of Education on Friday

The government is changing how the bursary for postgraduate social work students works from September Here s our quick guide to what s happening

The Health and Care Professions Council has held more than 120 hearings concerning social workers since it took over the register last year Kirsty McGregor looks at the emerging trends

Locum social workers in England have welcomed the flexibility of the new approach to continuing professional development but many feel they are not receiving enough support