More career development opportunities are to be made available for personal assistants (PAs) who work with people with disabilities, under plans announced yesterday.

Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash has been mistakenly paid to staff at a hospital caring for male offenders battling mental health problems.

The boss of children’s services has apologised face-to-face to three youngsters who endured a decade of abuse at the hands of their adoptive mother.

THE director of children’s services for Peterborough City Council says he is being “utterly transparent” in a bid to improve the safety of vulnerable children in Peterborough.

Social workers in Southampton are to strike in a continuing dispute with the city council over changes to pay and conditions, unions have announced.

Research funded by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has found that restraining someone by holding them forward in a seated position increases the risk of harm or death.

WHEN Tracey Connelly and her boyfriend Steven Barker were convicted in 2008 of killing her infant son – known to the world as Baby P – social services in Enfield were faced with a massive surge in calls about children suspected of being at risk of abuse.

After formally commissioning a comprehensive review of child protection in June last year, the government’s response to Professor Eileen Munro’s report marks an important step in mapping out its future strategy for safeguarding the country’s most vulnerable children.

VITAL children’s services in Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster will be led by a single director from September.

The government has been urged to clarify how new patient involvement structures will hold services to account over provision for young people, or risk marginalising the voice of child patients.