Youth offending team managers are calling for a standard qualification to be introduced for youth offending team (YOT) staff.

SOCIAL Services is set to undergo change after Devon County Council’s executive director for adult and community services David Johnstone handed in his notice.

The four-year-old killed at her home in Merseyside was “known” to social workers, it has emerged. The body of little Chloe Fletcher was found at her home in Wallasey and her 22-year-old mother was being questioned on suspicion murdering the child.

A social worker and three managers have been sacked for failings in the care of Baby P, Haringey Council has said.

A senior social worker abused his position and ruined a woman’s life after he had children with her while he was supposed to be dealing with her case.

The number of skilled jobs in Britain open to migrant workers from outside Europe is to be cut by nearly 300,000 because of sharply rising redundancies and unemployment.

Urgent action is needed to support the growing number of older people needing care, an older people’s charity has warned today.

Councils must prepare to bail-out failing care homes as the recession deepens, the incoming president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned.

Mental health patients could be stripped of a vital service that one patient says saved him from suicide. Ralph Hughes, 65, is one of around 30 patients suffering from mental illness and learning difficulties who work at the New Road Nursery in Hailsham.

Children’s professionals working for charities could become directors of children’s services (DCSs) to tackle a potential recruitment crisis, according to a report.