Social workers have a duty to concentrate on children’s needs – but parents would also benefit from having their own separate social work advocate

Croydon Council has been hit with a £100,000 fine from the information commissioner after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a London pub.

A Mental Health Foundation report shows that professional knowledge is the best tool for making legally sound decisions

Rules excluding virtually anyone with property from free personal care actively encourage people to hide their assets, the head of a Government commission on the crisis has warned.

The number of children referred into care in England has hit a record high. Last month, local authorities made 903 court applications to take children into care – the highest since courts service Cafcass was set up in 2001.

Budgets are shrinking and demand rising for social services to intervene before families reach crisis point

Three staff from a private hospital near Bristol have pleaded guilty to the ill treatment of residents. The case follows secret filming by the BBC’s Panorama TV programme at the Castlebeck-owned Winterbourne View hospital near Hambrook.

The College of Social Work (TCSW) has today announced that Professor Eileen Munro CBE is to work with the recently launched organisation in the role of Transitional Chair for the College’s Children’s Faculty.

Adult social care employers are celebrating the achievements of a record number of apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week which kicks off this week.

Elderly care Council leaders in the East Midlands warn of the ‘unsustainable’ costs of residential care for the elderly