Children’s rights campaigners have branded UK Border Agency (UKBA) proposals to remove child asylum seekers from the UK before they are 17 years old as “shocking”.

The feasibility of setting up community “social service surgeries” and criminal records checks for council tenants is to be explored, as part of a study to be carried out by an independent think tank.

NOTTS County Council today reveals how it plans to cut other services to provide more support for children it cares for.

Councils and health trusts could save some £3bn by closer working and better preventative spending, the charity Counsel and Care has said.

COUNCIL bosses are expected to approve proposals to close four care homes in Barrow to make way for a multi-million pound development this week.

A council boss who oversaw the care of a teenage girl killed in a car crash resigned just days before disciplinary proceedings were due to start against her.

Police are urging elderly residents to keep out unknown and unexpected callers after two elderly residents were robbed by thieves pretending to be social workers.

BASW is urging the government to allow organisations more time to consider radical reforms to the NHS in England, warning that they are being driven forward too quickly.

Poor planning is causing young people with mental health problems to miss out on adult mental health support when they leave the care of child mental health services, according to a study.

A NURSE who had a lesbian affair with a patient she met on a secure unit has been allowed to keep her job.