Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been told to improve its data security after a memory stick with personal details about 40 children in care was lost.

With the Children’s Workforce Development Council losing government funding, its responsibilities will transfer to the Department for Education. Lauren Higgs reports on the achievements of CWDC and the sector’s hopes for the future of workforce development.

BASW has described the Department for Education’s decision to axe funding for the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) as ‘regrettable’ but ‘the right thing to do’ if it helps safeguard frontline jobs.

West Sussex County Council is to stop providing social care to people with “moderate level needs”.

Directors of adult social services departments will publish their own annual reports on the quality of their services and targets for improvement, under proposals outlined in a Department of Health consultation.

Carers for people with learning disabilities fear centres may be closed in a council review of services.

A Sky News investigation has discovered elderly nursing home residents who want to end their own lives have been threatened with eviction over concerns about the law on assisted suicide.

Staff at a Shropshire care home have claimed beds available for the elderly are not being filled due to problems with red tape.

Up to 100 staff from the disability charity Norwood will hold a demonstration today to protest against plans they say will cut the salaries of some care workers by about 20 per cent.

Plymouth City Council accepted a recommendation to close the Welby Unit in Peverell. The authority said the Victorian building was outdated and not fit for purpose.