In many ways, this is perhaps the worst possible time to be a director of adult social care. For one thing, councils are having to bear the brunt of the government’s spending cuts.

There will be no “pot of gold” to answer the prayers of councils struggling to look after the elderly, according to social care chiefs.

With a record 40,000 people taking the apprenticeship route into adult social care last year, it’s now a serious career path option

A new campaign has been launched to attract 25 experienced social workers to Peterborough.

A prestigious awards scheme which aims to highlight exemplary child protection work in London is now open for entries.

There are grave consequences ahead for the health and wellbeing of older people warn Age UK and the British Geriatrics Society. They say a failing system of social care will also lead to increased costs to the NHS in England and that recent reports demonstrate the human cost of the crisis with “chronically under-funded social care services jeopardising older people’s health, dignity and wellbeing”.

A PLYMOUTH social worker failed to properly monitor 16 vulnerable children who could have been victims of abuse, a hearing was told.

Youth jobless rate of 22.4% masks huge gap between successful north and failing south

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of causing wilful neglect as part of an investigation into a Devon-based care centre for disabled adults.

POLICE have launched an investigation into the death of an 80-year-old resident in a county care home.