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.

Twenty-nine children seeking asylum in Britain have gone missing from the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal in the past three years, it emerged today.

Ten NHS trusts, four mental health trusts and an ambulance trust are not meeting the tough new standards of care that have been set by the Care Quality Commission, it was revealed as the CQC announced plans to give 214 more NHS trusts a licence to operate.

The government has published its long-awaited early intervention report and pledged to bring in ring-fenced funding to ensure children’s trusts do more to support vulnerable children at an early age.

The whistleblower who warned that Haringey social services were failing to protect children just six months before the death of Baby P is to stand for election there as a Liberal Democrat councillor.

Negotiations are under way to transfer social work programmes from the University of Reading to Thames Valley University. If the plan goes ahead, social work programmes will be delivered in Reading by Thames Valley University (TVU), after terms of agreement are ratified.

Campaigners have accused the Chancellor of failing to take “purposeful” action to end child poverty following the Budget announced today.

Prison inspectors have added their voice to criticism of detaining children at the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

Sixty per cent of social workers have considered leaving the profession in the last year, according to research by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW).