Ahead of the paper’s publication the College of Social Work’s Owen Davies outlines what he’d like the government to focus on

A care worker was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation following a fire in a Whitton care home last night.

Remploy – which provides work for people with disabilities – is planning to close 36 of its 54 factories, putting more than 1,700 jobs at risk.

David Cameron will set out plans on Friday to create a “fairer, faster” adoption process – including moves to make it easier for white couples to adopt black children.

BASW has responded to the latest government plans to reform the adoption system in England by insisting that a child’s right to the best possible outcome should not be sacrificed in a “knee-jerk” rush to speed up the time it takes to secure adoption placements.

A ‘fundamental’ review of social work teams could save Cheshire West and Chester Council £425,000 over the next two years.

Safeguards to protect vulnerable children in Gloucestershire are better now than they were in 2010, government inspectors have said.

Proposals to set up a new company to provide social care in Northamptonshire are to be considered by the county council.

POLICE have revealed they are no closer to catching a bogus social worker accused of sexually assaulting a two-year-old boy.

Over a thousand older and disabled people have turned up to a mass lobby of parliament.