Children are at risk of harm due to inadequate and late assessments by Kent County Council’s social services team, Ofsted has warned.

A GROUP of social workers from America have been getting to grips with life in England after being drafted in to help fill staffing shortages in the county’s social services department.

JOBS in healthcare and social work are set to be slashed in Barnsley as part of multi-agency plans to cut a £5.5 million deficit in its budget.

A woman who illegally claimed benefits for nine years while owning a £500,000 property portfolio has been ordered to repay more than £110,000.

THE head of a Teesside council’s adult services department, responsible for adult social care services, has been suspended in the wake of a critical care quality inspection.

NORTH Yorkshire and York Community and Mental Health Services have been praised in a national survey.

Four high-profile cases have focused attention on a form of abuse often underplayed – child neglect. But, asks Mark Ivory, at what point should protection workers intervene?

An approved school housemaster from West Yorkshire who became a scout leader and council director of social services carried out a string of sex attacks on vulnerable boys at a school over a period of years, a court has heard.

Child protection workers hope the Munro review will signal an end to stifling layers of admin and bureaucracy and bring a return to more frontline work with families, says Sally Gillen. But will it live up to its promise?

Sharon Shoesmith, the woman who lost her job as head of Haringey children’s services over the Baby P scandal, has said she sometimes regrets not quitting when the news broke.