PSW magazine

Social Workers Without Borders is urging the government to take action over the hundreds of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who have gone missing from Home Office hotels.

The government has ditched its 10 Year Mental Health Plan, launched only last year, to the dismay of campaigners and professionals in the field.

"We work alongside some of the most marginalised people in society. We also work with imperfect systems and structures."

Sector leaders unimpressed by government's Children's Social Care Implementation Strategy

More children are in need of assessments under the Mental Health Act but training and the resources to support them are not keeping up with demand, says Sarah Redmond, an approved mental health professional

But new early career framework planned to improve recruitment and retention

Award-winning social worker Vivian Okeze-Tirado reflects on the latest brutal killing of a Black man by police in America

Ministers are due to give their response to the "once in a generation opportunity to transform children's social care" any day now. Professional Social Work magazine considers what they might say

Children's campaigner says it's vital to tackle discrimination

Extracts from Scroll of Agony - The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A Kaplan, reproduced with kind permission from his granddaughter Rena Phillips, a social worker and BASW member