Mental well-being has become an ‘emerging priority’ for local authorities, but councils ‘struggle with a lack of shared understanding’ of the issue, it has emerged.

The £1 billion social care funding crisis is a pincer movement that could damage services for the disadvantaged and elderly, said the Unite union.

A DEVOTED husband who has been caring for his disabled wife for almost 30 years has been given £2,500 compensation from Enfield Council after being “harassed and humiliated” by social workers.

Children in care is not a subject that attracts much media attention, but a new project aims to change that.

Hundreds of young people are trying to sue local authorities in England and Wales for failing to remove them from abusive homes, lawyers are claiming.

A CARE worker who illegally injected an elderly man has been sentenced. Julie Ann Taylor, who is already serving a prison sentence for stealing from another victim, lied about her qualifications before giving the injection.

Following World Social Work Day, Janet Murray spends a day with two newly qualified child protection workers and visits some of the families in their care

A REBEL Liverpool charity has declared independence from the UK’s largest age charity with a scathing attack on their “bureaucratic” and “wasteful” operation.

Thousands of vulnerable residents face cuts to their social care after a controversial proposal was approved by West Sussex County Council.

A domestic violence support group which has lost its funding said social workers do not have the time or skills to help victims when it closes.