Care services have been joined up by charities to help vulnerable adults with multiple needs. The Making Every Adult Matter coalition said services often struggled to deal with multiple care needs and failings in the system were causing the inefficient use of public funds and social exclusion.

Liverpool is recruiting dozens more child social workers to support the city’s most vulnerable families. The city council is spending an extra £1.7 million a year creating 31 new posts to protect the city’s most at-risk youngsters.

A SOCIAL worker who was sacked by the council faces being struck off if she is found guilty of misconduct at a hearing this week.

The NSPCC has urged the government to better support social workers to identify cases of childhood neglect, and to ensure children in troubled households are properly seen and heard.

A FORMER social services boss and scout leader from West Yorkshire has been charged with a series of sex offences against teenage boys dating back 40 years.

Plans to allow the media to name social workers in family court cases are being opposed strongly by judges and lawyers, who warn that the change could breach human rights laws. They have expressed “grave concerns” that the latest tranche of reforms to open up the courts may drive away experts and violate children’s rights to privacy.

A coroner attacked authorities over failings while dealing with a family who were terrorised by a gang of youths asking why social workers could not have just “sat down with a cup of tea” and asked how to help.
 

FOLLOWING last night’s meeting of Wirral’s Audit and Risk Management committee, the council has issued the following response.

Voluntary sector organisations such as Home-Start can play a vital role in the future of social work, a senior Liberal Democrat MP has said.

WIRRAL Council allowed a “co-ordinated cover-up and serious malpractice” over a special charging policy for vulnerable people, a committee meeting heard last night.