PLANS to share social services between three councils could save taxpayers £1.4m.

A Bath health chief has spoken of the “unrelenting” pressure being placed on a nursing and social care system “continually at boiling point.”

A senior doctor has called for social care “swat teams” to stop older people getting stuck in hospital.

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Several computer monitors were stolen during a burglary at the Social Services offices on St.George’s Road in Barnstaple in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Kent County Council is set to take the Home Office to court in a bid to recover millions of pounds it is spending looking after young asylum seekers who should no longer be in the UK.

In the current climate of austerity, World Social Work Day offers a challenge for politicians and social workers to find new ways of working together, BASW will say.

BASW has said that difficult questions remain about the approach taken to staff involved in the Baby Peter Connelly case, following today’s decision by the Court of Appeal to reject a claim of unfair dismissal brought by two of the boy’s social workers against Haringey Council.