Record-high scores for adult social services are being called into question as councils are limiting the people who can get access to them.

Practitioners working in services for children and young people are being equipped with the latest ideas and techniques, thanks to a programme delivered through the University of Chester.

Ministers are giving the go-ahead for a fundamental reform of the “perplexing” law governing adult social care in England and Wales, pulling together more than 30 acts of parliament passed over 60 years.

A FORMER Birmingham social worker in charge of a childrens home has been struck off the professional register for abusing his power and carrying out inappropriate intimate examinations on vulnerable children.

A FARMER from Derbyshire who helps troubled youths is to meet ministers to discuss how they might extend schemes like his nationally.

I worked in the Child Development Centre in Haringey. I left before Baby P was seen by the service (»  Media witch-hunt puts more children at risk, 22 November), but would like to share my thoughts.

A man who fathered nine children with two of his own daughters has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting raping the girls over a 30-year period.

The leader of the Local Government Association has described the treatment of the social workers involved in the Baby P case as a ‘witch-hunt’.

The leader and cabinet member for children at Haringey have both survived an attempt to oust them. Cllrs George Meehan and Liz Santry will remain in thier posts after Lib Dem members tabled a motion of no confidence in the pair.

A children’s hospice has decided to suspend its community outreach service over uncertainty about cash invested in a failed Icelandic bank.