A perverted youth worker landed a job with children in Cumbria despite having been disciplined by his previous employer for behaving inappropriately with young girls.

A PRIVATE care company has had its £1.5million contract for looking after elderly, disabled or mentally ill Islington residents in their own homes terminated by the council after just five months.

Paul Snell, former chief inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, has been appointed as acting chief executive of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

SOCIAL care in Surrey has been dealt another blow after a union’s Freedom of Information request revealed more than a quarter of social worker posts in the county are unfilled.

SOCIAL workers dealing with at-risk children in Enfield are generally satisfactory but are “significantly stretched”, an unplanned inspection has found.

Serious problems in child protection services at three councils have been uncovered following surprise inspections, it was revealed today.

Surrey County Council’s (SCC) under-fire children’s services has closed as many as 500 cases so it can focus on its most vulnerable children.

Social care workers who look after older and disabled people have had a raw deal under successive governments and should be paid more and given greater status, says the health secretary, Andy Burnham.

A project trialled in Sussex to improve child services will be rolled out across the country. Dubbed the Leading Improvements for Looked After Children (Lilac), the scheme was based on the findings of three young people who had been in care in Sussex.

Children’s secretary Ed Balls says Goldie and other famous faces in the government’s TV ad campaign can help revise public understanding of the value of social work – and transform the profession.