A London council has become the first in the UK to role out the use of new satellite technology for residents who have dementia.

Agencies involved with a woman who drowned her four-year-old daughter failed to recognise the extent of her mental health problems, a report says.

A new organisation is being set up to help NHS and social care bodies plan their workforce around delivering more productive and people centred care, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.

Elderly people who have been in residential care for two years will have the costs paid for the rest of their lives under Labour plans to reshape the welfare state, The Times has learnt.

A compulsory levy would be introduced to create a universal system of social care for adults in England, under plans to be unveiled by ministers.

The National Skills Academy for Social Care has launched its national management trainee scheme for the second year. The pioneering scheme was piloted last year and it acquired 20 graduates.

A SOCIAL worker who molested three disabled boys was struck off. David Lawrence Morris abused the adolescent youngsters while they were staying at Arrowe Hall overnight care centre in the 1980s.

A Cumbrian nursing home under investigation by social services has been told by independent inspectors that it is not looking after its elderly residents properly.

UNDER-pressure Birmingham social workers are struggling to cope with a record 27,000 cases of alleged child abuse.

LAST week’s revelations that child protection services failed to stop a boy being abused and neglected for 12 years show that an official inquiry is needed into the management of Health and Social Services, says Senator Alan Breckon.