TWO workers have been cleared of abusing elderly residents in a Hull care home. Kathryn Mary Broadley, 59, and Tina Taylor, 53, were found unanimously not guilty by a jury at Hull Crown Court of ill-treating and neglecting five women aged between 77 and 90.

The government has launched a £40m campaign to help young people survive the recession. Backing Young Britain is designed to get more young people into employment, work experience and training.

Social work training is unfit for purpose, according to a damning report by MPs out today. The Commons select committee for children, schools and families warns that children’s lives are being put at risk because social workers are not being prepared adequately for the challenges they face.

A former Save the Children worker with connections to a Romanian paedophile ring has been jailed for four years after admitting raping a 14-year-old.

Theresa Winters, a woman who has already had 13 babies taken into care, is pregnant with her 14th child – and says she will keep on trying for more until she is allowed to keep one.
 

A senior social worker faces being struck off for allegedly persuading young offenders in Yorkshire to take part in topless modelling shoots.

THE team responsible for targeting youth crime in the borough has been severely criticised in a damning inspection of its work. Sefton Youth Offending Team (YOT) is in need of ‘drastic improvement’, say probation chiefs.

A CARE worker cried as she told a jury she loved being a carer and did not abuse elderly residents. Kathryn Broadley gave evidence at Hull Crown Court yesterday.

THE planned closure of three care homes has come under fire from a local county councillor. East Sussex County Council’s cabinet agreed to shut down St. Anthony’s Court in Eastbourne, Gilda Crescent in Polegate and Grangemead in Hailsham later this year in a bid to restructure its care services and reduce costs.

LAST week the Government published its social care Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care Together in which it sets out plans to ensure that everyone in England will have access to a National Care Service that is fair, simple and affordable.