Social services are again in the political spotlight as more details emerge about the terrifying attack on two children in Doncaster.

Councils should employ a director of family services to sit above the directors of children’s and adult’s services according to a green paper from former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank.

Interviews will be held in the United States to boost the number of social workers employed in Coventry. Retaining permanent social workers in the UK was a major problem, Coventry City Council said.

A FORMER senior social worker from South Yorkshire has been struck off the professional register for misconduct.

An experienced social worker from Birmingham has been accused of misconduct for failing to declare she had been convicted of theft.

No inquests are to be held into the deaths of a couple found in their freezing home in Northamptonshire.

Social services in Doncaster missed more than 30 opportunities to intervene in the lives of two young brothers who went on to beat, torture and sexually assault a pair of boys last year, according to a leaked investigation report.

Dementia sufferers in Lowestoft will soon have access to more personalised care as part of a government-funded pilot scheme.

A female social worker has described how she was left mortified and upset when one of her local authority’s most senior figures referred to her as Miss Whiplash in front of male colleagues.
 

THE future of what was once a flagship home for the elderly in Totnes is causing anger as the county council owners leave the building to ‘rot’ while the town’s elderly are having to be shipped to care homes miles away.