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

A care assistant who killed a frail dementia patient by setting fire to her bed in a Cheshire care home has declined to offer any evidence in court.

A warning has been issued that jobs could be at risk at a residential care home at Norham, near Berwick, because of the slump in the car industry.

A mentally ill woman stabbed her two young sons to death just hours after begging her GP to call social services. Jael Mullings, 22, killed two-year-old Romario Mullings-Sewell, and Delayno, who was just four months old, after smoking large quantities of strong “skunk” cannabis.

The university admissions service, Ucas, is considering whether to drop a requirement for students to declare criminal convictions when they apply to university, following a high-profile case exposed by the Guardian.

Patients will have a greater say on the care they receive with a new programme being launched in West Berkshire. Adults needing social care are testing out a pilot scheme to manage their own budget for care to choose the aspects they want.

The first shaft of light to illuminate the dark corners of the civil courts may be disappointing to campaigners, but it is better than no change at all, says Cassandra Jardine.
 

A POLICE probe has been launched into an alleged removal of council data on a memory stick, Bucks Free Press understands.The information was allegedly taken from Buckinghamshire County Council.

A SOCIAL worker who had sex with a mentally ill woman from Camberley has been struck off the social care register.

A MERSEY care home forged inspection documents and sent in the owner’s daughter as a “bogus” inspector, a tribunal heard yesterday.