CHILDREN’S social services in Suffolk have been told to pull their socks up after a snap inspection by Ofsted.

The number of people aged over 85 is likely to increase by 60% by 2030 and the cost to the State of caring from them is likely to treble from today’s figure, a report published this week suggests.

A body discovered following a house fire in Cornwall has been identified as a 43-year-old care worker who is believed to have been murdered.

Local authorities are struggling to identify and track children who are missing from education and vulnerable to physical, emotional and psychological harm, according to a report published today.

SOCIAL services bosses in Norfolk have hit back at claims they would allow vulnerable people in the county to use taxpayers’ money earmarked for their care to pay for prostitutes.

An anti-bullying charity which specialises in helping victims of online abuse says it will close unless it finds £50,000 over the next two weeks.

THE interim head of children and young people’s services at Suffolk County Council may get another year in the post when his current contract runs out, it has emerged.

More than 4,000 children who rang ChildLine last year said they were worried about their parents’ excessive drinking, according to the charity’s latest report.

The National Care Association and Skills for Care have announced that they are to jointly host a Conference on 20 October 2010 on the Care of Dementia during National Care Association’s Annual Conference at the Millennium Hotel in London.

Recent restrictions on the number of migrant workers given permission to work in the UK is putting thousands of children at risk, according to a recruitment agency providing specialist public sector workers.