A CARE home has been boarded up – despite res- idents and their families still being officially con-sulted on its closure. Blackburn with Darwen Council announced plans to close Brookside Care Home, in Pearl Street, Blackburn, as a “plan B” to cut costs for elderly care after it failed to sell three of its five homes.

A nursing home has won a planning appeal against Colchester Council. Inspector Christopher Anstey ruled in favour of Abberton Manor after hearing both sides of the debate in March.

The worst-taught degrees in the country have been exposed by disgruntled students, with subjects taught at Britain’s elite universities ranked among the worst performers.
 

A high proportion of suspected victims of child trafficking are disappearing from local authority care, according to an influential body of MPs.

Ofsted has published its revised plans on inspection of safeguarding and looked-after children, including unannounced inspections of child protection services in every local authority.

Britain’s leading adoption charity was forced to apologise and amend an official guide after it branded critics of gay adoption “retarded homophobes”.

Child and family social workers can continue to be hired from abroad after the government accepted the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee’s review.

Four in ten newspaper reports about social work breached the PCC editors’ code of practice and more than half were negative, according to research by a trade magazine.

Sue Ryder Care has called on the Government and NHS to strengthen their commitments to improving the provision and equality of access to end of life care

The Integrated Children’s System (ICS) has failed to reduce social workers’ working hours, according to a report from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).