The borough’s day care service for the elderly is facing a shake up, after the council’s cabinet rubberstamped a proposal to merge all four centres into one. A review of

A social worker who was part of a group which gathered outside a couple’s house and shouted ‘baby murderers’ has been suspended from the profession for 12 months. Joanna Burgess

Women’s Aid is today launching the UK Gold Book online, a vital resource to support anyone working with women and children experiencing domestic abuse. The UK Gold Book online is

A care home for elderly people in Berkshire is to close, despite a campaign to save it. Reading Borough Council voted to shut the Arthur Clark home in Caversham, saying

A care worker from the Forest of Dean will today appear in court charged with nine counts of ill-treating or neglecting three patients. Brent Morgan denies the offences that are

Government proposals miss out reforms needed for the entire children’s services system Children’s homes providers have long argued for many of the changes the government now wants to make. But

The Mayor of the City of Derby, Councillor Fareed Hussain, will be speaking at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the city of the British Association of Social Workers, the

A new online ‘one-stop shop’ for people with dementia and their carers has been launched by East Sussex County Council. The authority has launched a Dementia Information Hub on its

Nearly a million jobs will be lost from the public sector within four years, according to predictions from Zurich Municipal. Zurich Municipal said that by 2017, 900,000 more jobs could

Police investigating a £1 million scam targeting elderly people have made 16 arrests. The inquiry led by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate was launched in December and focused