More NHS trusts admit they are failing to comply with child protection guidelines, the government’s health inspectorate reports today.

VILLAGERS are angry at plans to create a children’s home in the middle of their rural idyll. Residents of Heads Nook, near Brampton, are up in arms about the “legal loophole” that means the home doesn’t need planning permission.

Disgraced child protection manager Lynda Barnes says her life is in tatters after being named in a hard-hitting court ruling criticising council chiefs in Bath.

Social work departments are desperately short of qualified staff – including one authority with a 39% vacancy rate – the UK’s largest public sector union warned today.

The number of adults receiving council-funded residential care in England fell in 2007/08 compared to the previous year, a report from The NHS Information Centre shows.

More than 100 projects across England aimed at bringing services for children and families under one roof are set to benefit from £200m of Government funding.

A social worker who has helped people for more than 30 years has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Andrea Collingridge from Narborough provides pre-birth risk assesments to ensure children are safe before and after they are born.

Bath and North East Somerset Council has admitted it employed a social work manager who had a conviction for conspiracy to murder.

THE family of a former Liverpool care home manager who died branded a paedophile has failed in an extremely rare posthumous bid to clear his name.

The current four-tier eligibility system for adult social care should be scrapped and replaced with two broader categories, the Local Government Association.