A care home manager who stole nearly £4,000 from an elderly dementia patient was spared jail because she has a seven-month-old baby to look after.

The social services department at Bath and North East Somerset Council has been forced to apologise for a series of blunders which left a number of vulnerable people open to being targeted by thieves and conmen.

A SERIOUS case review into a severely disabled Redditch man’s care prior to his death has revealed a catalogue of errors made by social workers.

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has commended the Audit Commission and Ofsted but said the Care Quality Commission (CQC) “has significant ground to cover” in its role in creating a sustainable future.

SOCIAL workers in Surrey have again threatened to walk out in a row over their workloads and what they see as a lack of support from the county council.

A local Government think tank is calling for a national college of social work. The Local Government Information Unit says such an institution would build the reputation of the profession as well as being an advocate for social workers.

An innovative programme of school intervention that has slashed a school’s exclusion numbers and was devised by a social worker is to go nationwide.

The two brothers involved in the Edlington torture case were well known to social services, the police and the education service, raising questions over whether the tragedy could have been prevented.
 

Haringey council “squandered” the equivalent of 700 social workers’ salaries on private consultants while overstretched staff failed to save Baby P, the Standard can reveal.

A private home help company has clung on to its controversial contract in Norwich after the public voted in its favour. Norfolk County Council wrote to 525 people in the city who receive help from Careforce to ask if they wanted to switch to another service.