Child protection services in Somerset have been given the lowest rating of inadequate by Ofsted. The verdict follows an unannounced inspection by Ofsted inspectors. Social services was told to review

Vince Cable orders review into conditions which do not guarantee work from one week to the next More than 30,000 care workers in the West Midlands are on zero-hours contracts,

Coventry City Council has unveiled plans to save £22m, including closing homes for people coming out of hospital and cutting about 140 care jobs. The authority needs to save £8m

The Care Quality Commission has published a report on River View Care Home in Rodway Road and taken enforcement action for failings in all six quality standards Inspectors have found

A PAGAN couple claim a game of dungeons and dragons led social services to take their kids away after the authority equated it with ‘witchcraft’. The Bedfordshire pair, who cannot

New draft guidance on identifying and preventing domestic violencei and abuse between family members or between people who are (or who have been) intimate partners is published by the UK’s

Judge says four-year-old suffered incomprehensible brutality from Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek A judge told a couple who murdered a four-year-old boy after inflicting months of cruelty and starvation on

Teachers and social workers need to ensure their judgements are not distorted by what they are told by parents, the chair of Coventry Safeguarding Children Board has said. Amy Weir