The care of Britain’s older people is increasingly being carried out by migrant workers. Now evidence suggests that some agencies are seriously exploiting staff.

SOCIAL services for adults in Liverpool have been given top marks by inspectors. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given the city council’s services an “excellent” score and praised the local authority’s “ambitious vision”.

The chair of the Social Work Taskforce has said its final report could not recommend a cap on social workers’ caseloads because of the current pressures on the workforce.

Guidelines will be introduced to ensure all social workers have manageable workloads, high quality supervision and time for professional training, the children’s secretary, Ed Balls, and the health secretary, Andy Burnham, will announce later today.

Isle of Wight social care staff gathered at County Hall this morning (Tuesday) in a protest over proposed changes to their car allowance scheme.

The number of children suspected of being at risk in their family homes in the Bradford district has soared as a direct result of the death of Baby P.

Social workers who abused children were left free to carry on working because of critical failings by the watchdog in charge of them, an inquiry has found.

A national college of social work is to be established to give new leadership to a profession that has yet to recover from the Baby P tragedy a year ago.

The government is to intervene in Warrington’s children’s services after an Ofsted inspection found its safeguarding services to be inadequate.

FIVE months ago Mark Wilkinson had a steady job as a community safety officer with Hampshire County Council and lived with his wife and young son in Freemantle.