Ofsted’s deputy chief inspector and director of social care John Goldup is to leave the inspectorate by “mutual agreement” this month and will be replaced by the current president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

Police have received more than 5,000 reports of under-18-year-olds sexually abusing other children over the last three years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

Brain injury patients are at risk of ending up on the streets or entering the criminal justice system once they leave hospital because over-stretched social care departments are struggling to support them, a Senior Social Worker warned.

Social workers still suffer from an image problem, MPs were told by a social worker at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work’s inquiry into the state of the profession.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has announced several alarming issues that are affecting the delivery of good home care services in the UK.

It is thought that more young people are self-harming, but awareness training for care professionals is patchy

Research shows that 150,000 of those affected by new tax are single parents, who will lose an average £728 each

Children from low-income families should have more support in the early years to tackle their speech, language and communication needs says a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

Negative attitudes towards disabled adults, children and their families are “part of a culture” at Cornwall Council which regards them as a “burden” on budgets, a charity claimed last night.

UNIONS are claiming a partial victory in a contract dispute, but have warned ‘it may be too little, too late’.