POLICE chief Peter Fahy has raised concerns about government cuts in the wake of an incident where a disabled man from Bolton froze to death outside his house.

If its aim was to create a burning platform for adult social care services, the Dilnot report, ‘Fairer Care Funding’, was a success, writes Keith Coleman

Peter Hay, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), has made what he is calling an unprecedented offer to private care home owners to join him and other directors of adult social services in talks about fee levels paid by local councils.

The NSPCC is calling on national and local governments in England and Wales to re-consider making big cuts to children’s services.

The message from government has long been that frontline services are sacrosanct and will be safeguarded from the impact of spending cuts. The reality, says Ruth Cartwright, British Association of Social Workers, England, manager, is very different

THE leader of the Isle of Wight Council has rejected calls for him to stand down after the authority’s social care cuts were branded unlawful.

One in four child runaways has found themselves in a dangerous or harmful situation, research from The Children’s Society has revealed.

NSPCC says local authorities will look to make savings despite rising demand for child protection services

Good placements for social work students can be hard to find. The General Social Care Council’s head of social work education offers a solution

Health secretary says that unions should consider the ‘unprecedented offer’ that been put on table by the government