THE former chief executive of an Essex addiction treatment centre is set to appear before a disciplinary committee next month to answer serious allegations of misconduct.

HAMPSHIRE’s children’s services chief is to take over the responsibility for the Isle of Wight in the wake of the damning Ofsted inspection, which branded child protection ‘inadequate’.

The new Harwood Care and Support Charter sets out a way of working to which care providers who sign up to it will pledge to abide by.

More than 40 jobs are at risk at a care firm after it lost a major contract with the council. Homecare B&NES said 46 members of staff could be affected by Bath and North East Somerset Council’s decision to end its contract on March 31.

The head of Northamptonshire County Council has denied the head of social services is being moved on over a damning inspection report on children’s services.

A CHARITY boss has called for councils to do more to protect vulnerable residents after a ‘disgraceful’ review of home care providers.

A FORMER nurse manager of a baby hospice is to face a misconduct hearing over an accusation she failed to report concerns about sexual abuse.

In a Huffington Post blog, BASW’s press officer assesses how the media is being used to promote the government’s proposals on welfare reform by demonising benefit claimants such as mum of 11 Heather Frost.