COST-CUTTING proposals could leave more than 750 vulnerable people without cash for their care. Lincolnshire County Council is planning to make people with “moderate needs” ineligible for care funding in a bid to save £4.6 million a year.

West Sussex County Council has been criticised for failing to protect its disabled residents.

COUNCILLORS will have to reconsider their decision to launch a review of the services it offers vulnerable adults, a move that had put the future of a Spalding respite care home at risk.

The Isle of Man department of social care has launched a new service for adults with special needs. The new psychology service will bring a clinical psychologist to the Isle of Man for two days every month.

Ofsted inspectors have praised the South Yorkshire and Humberside operation of family court advisory service Cafcass.

A national training centre has opened its doors this month to remedy the “worrying gap” in professionals’ knowledge of working with victims of child trafficking, amid claims that the government is doing too little to address the issue.

Children in care could go to the best schools – but they hardly ever do. Why is the system failing them?

A joint child protection investigation team involving social workers and police has been launched in Hertfordshire.

BASW has reacted with ‘dismay but not surprise’ to a new report that revealed housing support workers are being forced to fill the gap left by adult social workers and undertake a range of tasks that they are neither qualified nor trained for.

More needs to be done to protect people from failing care services in England, a report says.