Community Care celebrates 50 years reporting on and supporting social work

Today, Community Care celebrates 50 years reporting on and supporting the social work profession.
We published our first edition on 3rd April 1974, a few years after the creation of a unified social work profession in the UK, with the advent of social work and social services departments, a single qualification and generic social work roles.
As our first editor, Mark Allen, said in a recent interview to mark our 50th anniversary: “People felt that it was the start of a new era in social wo