Private companies which get public money to run care homes will be made “corporately accountable” for poor standards, the Care Services minister has pledged.

ONE in 10 social services workers in Wirral is in dispute with the council, according to new figures.

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has again warned social workers in England that they must re-register before 30 November or face being unable to practise using the title ‘social worker’.

Proposal by the Building Trust could see sheds turned into prefab homes in London. But would this only exacerbate existing problems in deprived areas?

Companies linked to Southern Cross Healthcare could become responsibility of bank, which lent to them in 2007

A proposed scheme called Frontline aims to improve social work’s image and attract the best recruits to the profession, by Josh MacAlister

Schools and social workers too often distracted by at-risk adolescents’ sometimes disruptive behaviour, report says

Two care home bosses have been banned from being directors after the savings of vulnerable residents – totalling nearly £60,000 – was lost when the nursing home went bust.

Four new advice and support centres are set to throw open their doors to help people with dementia as part of plans to establish a network across Surrey.

SOCIAL workers who failed to take action to stop a man stealing his aunt’s life-savings say they were not aware a complaint had been made.