A SOCIAL worker suspended over the Sanam Navsarka case has been reinstated. The Deighton two-year-old, inset, died in 2008 after suffering more than 100 injuries.

A GP suspended for failing to spot that Baby P was being abused today apologised and said: “I let him down – I failed the baby.”

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has called immediate action on Professor Eileen Munro’s recommendations for improving child protection.

THE Labour leadership of Harrow Council have come under fire for pulling £2.1m out of the budget for adult social care.

MORE than 50 home care staff who look after Dudley’s elderly people in the community have lost their jobs.

COUNCIL staff have been praised for the work they do to care for and protect vulnerable adults. It follows an independent five-day review into Hartlepool Borough Council’s adult safeguarding measures.

Government announces a reduction in central regulation and a commitment to greater trust in professionals in response to report

Two social workers have been sacked for ignoring warnings about a father who went on to attack his baby.

The creation of a Chief Social Worker post to advise Government on social work and the effectiveness of help being given to children and young people announced today has been hailed as a ‘breakthrough’ by The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) who has long campaigned for this role.

A REGISTERED nurse has been suspended from working for 18 months after a disciplinary panel was told of a catalogue of failures to safeguard elderly people when she was manager of an Oldbury care home.