A DERBY care home owner says he was forced to take legal action to overturn an inspectors’ assessment of his business.

Front line care for some of Norfolk’s most vulnerable adults will be hit if plans to cut 28 social worker posts go ahead – it was claimed last night.

A unique centre for dementia sufferers will officially open next Tuesday. The flagship Heavers Resource Centre for older people is the only one of its kind in the country.

Staff and students from a university’s social care department demonstrated outside a meeting expected to confirm plans to shut it in 2011.

THE University of Cumbria has postponed the launch of a new degree course in social work because it has not received accreditation.

Social workers deserve better. Routinely vilified in sections of the national press, they work with some of the most difficult people in our society and under some of the most challenging circumstances.

Councils across the country are making the same mistakes that contributed to the death of Baby P, an official report is expected to say today.
 

Training for social services managers must be overhauled under plans to be unveiled today in the wake of the Baby P scandal.

A PROBE has been launched into allegations dementia sufferers were mistreated at a Wirral care home.

Social Services chiefs today insisted that they did act on a tip-off about a Carlisle toddler who was found by police living in a squalid drugs den.