Social work interventions have cut child deaths and improved the life chances for vulnerable young people, the BASW England conference heard last week.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has been criticised by a High Court judge over comments he made at the time of Sharon Shoesmith’s sacking in 2008.

The new person responsible for delivering adult social care in Cumbria as well as running the county’s libraries, archives, registrars, coroners, Local Links and customer contact services has been appointed by Cumbria County Council.

A JUDGE has slammed drug workers for not funding a Yeovil offender’s treatment, against the advice of experts. Daniel Broome, of Newton Road, appeared at Taunton Crown Court on Friday having previously been handed a community order with a drug rehabilitation scheme after being convicted of theft last October.

THE stench of urine in a resident’s room at a Southampton care home overwhelmed inspectors on an unannounced visit, a court heard.

Shamed Baby P boss Sharon Shoesmith today failed in her High Court bid to prove that she was unfairly sacked. Mr Justice Foskett said the Government was right to order her dismissal from her £133,000-a-year post at Haringey council after failings that contributed to one of

A teenager convicted of serious sexual offences against another child when he was 11 has won his appeal to challenge his inclusion on the Sex Offenders Register.

Social care leaders face a “tough year to come” with continued funding battles and the need to develop different ways of working, the new ADASS president has warned.

Fresh concerns have been raised about a lack of engagement of local authority social services with the youth justice system. Mike Thomas, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers, highlighted the issue during a question and answer session at Nacro’s annual conference in Nottingham.

A judge has slammed the social services system in Manchesterl for ‘a startling lack of urgency’ in the days leading up to the death of a baby boy.