New research which investigated what happens when older people are given the opportunity to shape service commissioning and delivery is now available.

Social workers and social networking sites must work closely to protect adopted children from unplanned contact made by birth parents, according to social care groups.

MSc programmes face the axe as university cites lack of ‘internationally excellent research’ in social work studies

A SCHEME to protect children who have witnessed or suffered domestic violence was to be rolled out across the city today.

Sunita Mason explains why her review of the criminal records regime will make life easier for those who care for the vulnerable

A NEW REPORT entitled Responsible Reform, published today by disabled people (9 January 2012), finds that government misled MPs and peers over the hostility to disability benefit reform.

Politicians from all parties have been urged to work together to find a way to overhaul the “failing” social care system in England.

TWO Yorkshire nursing homes have been ordered to improve the care they give elderly residents after Government inspectors found a series of failings in unannounced inspections, including errors in medication dosage, and residents being left in dirty clothes.

LOCAL councils have defended adult social care fees, amid claims the system is “not fit for purpose” and is failing elderly people.

A COUNTY-WIDE campaign to raise awareness of adult abuse and the protection of vulnerable people is being run by Buckinghamshire County Council.