A BRENT social worker who threw a fan at a vulnerable child has been struck off. Robert Lennox Clarke was arrested after the attack left bruises on his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in July, 2009.

Many councils are struggling with moves to give individual people their own budgets to spend on social care, a watchdog claims.

Watchdog finds fewer than half of serious case reviews better than adequate and authorities frequently too trusting of parents

Local authorities in England who are facing massive budget cuts over the next four years are sitting on £14bn in reserves, it has emerged.

Ed Balls created a spectacular crisis in children’s social care, and now the coalition has done a curious U-turn

Council chiefs in Leeds are to cut the number of day centres for people with learning disabilities in a shake-up of adult care services.

Healthcare professionals are being offered first-hand advice on palliative and supportive care through a ground-breaking new 24-hour phoneline being launched by a Suffolk hospice.
 

A former University of York Professor, Kay Jones, died on 13 October 2010. Professor Jones was the founding Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and spent 22 years in charge of the Department.

The social work profession and good quality social work practice are fundamental to the wellbeing of society.

A social worker who committed plagiarism while studying for a postgraduate qualification and gave false information on job application forms has been banned from practising.