Some nurses working in the NHS don’t even want to be in the job, or they don’t have the ability to do the job properly or they lack the compassion needed to understand what it means to work with vulnerable people who look to them for care and support, according to a report by the NHS Future Forum.

Leicestershire County Council has announced plans to axe a further 500 jobs as part of its cost-cutting measures.

The government must not be put off by the costs of Andrew Dilnot’s recommendations on social care; if it does not act now the future price will be greater still

Children’s services at Waltham Forest Council need to improve significantly to avoid government intervention, children’s minister Tim Loughton has warned.

Inspection of adoption agencies is to be simplified in another part of the Government’s drive to improve the care children receive.

Health and council social care chiefs have admitted that integating their structures willl take longer than planned and that they should focus on ‘sharing culture and values’ instead.

A Whitehaven social worker “admonished” for professional misconduct at a hearing will keep her job. Members of a General Social Care Council panel gave their judgement yesterday after hearing evidence against Emma Grimshaw.