An investigation was launched after £120,000 of taxpayers’ money was paid by a council towards the care of dead people.

BASW is one of a number of organisations who submitted evidence to the commission for dignity in care draft report, which has just been published.

A GROUP which represents council social care departments has moved to reassure residents of Four Seasons care homes that the company is not in financial trouble.

Social services chiefs have called for legislation to halt London councils using Kent as a dumping ground for children in care.

The natural father of Baby P is suing the publishers of a Sunday newspaper for £130,000 damages for printing “one of the gravest libels imaginable”.

Regulation means that a student dismissed from one course cannot start another without the provider being made aware. By David Rowland

The Children’s Society have published a report, I Don’t Feel Human, about the shocking levels of destitution among refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children and young people in the UK.

Some parents could be forced out of work and into poverty as the rising cost of childcare outstrips wage rises, says a report.

England’s Children’s Rights Director Roger Morgan has released the annual children’s care monitor.

Ofsted’s new adoption targets could inadvertently reduce the number of children put forward for adoption, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has warned.