Social workers and education officials who failed to save Khyra Ishaq have been ordered to attend disciplinary hearings by Birmingham City Council.

A COUNCIL scandalised by the Edlington child torture attack is facing sustained and large-scale Government intervention following an emergency inspection into deep and ingrained failures in its management.

The Labour Party has pledged that social work training will be overhauled and more social workers would be based in schools should they be re-elected into government following the General Election next month.

Our equality and human rights scheme promotes a culture of care, putting individuals at the heart of health and social care services. We believe human rights should be at the centre of everything we do.

New services for people with dementia are being planned in Bath after the go-ahead for a £50 million project across the west. The joint initiative to provide specialist care facilities will also see new care homes being built in Wiltshire.

The Care Leavers’ Association (CLA) has added its voice to the growing backlash against government plans to stop funding the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC).

Social care experts and a leading drugs charity are stepping up calls for social workers to receive compulsory specialist training in drug and alcohol abuse.

Social workers have been criticised as “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents” by the judge who takes charge of the family courts today.

PROTESTS are being stepped up against proposed cuts to help vulnerable adults in Nottingham. Residents said they were appalled at the city council’s proposal to absorb its deaf team into a larger department, during a public meeting organised by Unison yesterday.

A SENIOR social worker at Plymouth City Council has been accused of claiming she made home visits to children on 70 occasions when she had not.