Doctors should detain a child in hospital if they suspect abuse and alert key agencies, such as social services and police, according to guidance published today.

The Care Quality Commission has named three directors to complete its seven-strong senior management team. The new super regulator over health, mental health and adult social care started operating on 1 April.

A CARE home closure has sparked controversy after it shut its doors 19 months after a council admitted it was failing residents’ needs.

Seldom can so many inquests have been held over a single, tiny, corpse. Last night BBC1’s Panorama carried out yet another, under the title, “Baby P – the whole truth?” The question mark conveniently allows for a further such investigation, whenever the public mood demands it.

A senior social worker harassed four female colleagues while boasting he was irresistible to women, a tribunal heard.

FIFTY new jobs are to be created for people interested in becoming home care assistants. The roles come off the back of Swindon Council’s decision to appoint a new firm to care for elderly residents in the soon to be completed Maple Court complex in Moredon and three other sheltered Swindon housing schemes.

A care home worker was jailed for at least 27 years today for killing an elderly patient by setting her bed on fire. Christopher Bowyer, 25, was labelled a “danger to society” by Mrs Justice Dobbs at Chester Crown Court.

A care home for people suffering from dementia has been opened in Darwen, Lancashire, staffed with neurological illness specialists.

A SENIOR social worker who fathered two children with one of his vulnerable clients has been struck off. A two-day General Social Care Council hearing heard that Richard Clasby (46) physically and sexually abused the woman during a four-year affair.

Children’s workers employed by Coventry Council have threatened to hold a strike over feared job losses. Following a meeting on 29 April with the union Unite, staff in the authority’s children’s and family education service said they were prepared to take industrial action over proposed council budget cuts.