A RECRUITMENT drive for personal assistants to work in adult social care will be the focus of a special event in Melton next week.

Health select committee chairman Stephen Dorrell has been cleared over allegations he should have declared financial links with care home owners.

UNIVERSITY students could be used to monitor social workers to help review their work. Notts County Council is talking to the University of Nottingham about getting postgraduate social work students to shadow its employees, recording the nature and volume of their work.

Integrating adapted housing with social care can cut health costs and improve the lives of the vulnerable, a report claims.

Acute needs of marginalised Gypsies and Irish Traveller groups could be better addressed by improved use of more information, by Joe Cottrell-Boyce

Following reports that 8,425 from an estimated 88,000 social workers have not registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) in England, BASW professional officer Joe Godden is calling for action to prevent an erosion of social work identity.

A Lancashire hospice is spreading its expert knowledge about end of life care further into the community through a training partnership with care homes.

A UNION is calling on Labour councillors to back down over plans to outsource the care of elderly people. The GMB union warned yesterday that moves to privatise some home care would result in a poorer service.

Kent has seen a worrying increase in claims that vulnerable elderly people are being abused in their own homes and while in residential care, a report has revealed.

A CARE HOME inspector is to start work at Notts County Council next week in a bid to improve the quality of care being given to the elderly.