Government criticised for not allowing pilots to test alternatives to serious case reviews on most complex incidents.

Social workers’ admin tasks have rocketed due to cuts in administrative support and frontline roles, according to latest research.

A former social worker from South Yorkshire is hoping to start a co-operative for people needing social care due to a disability or old age.

The amount of money paid for care home places in Oxfordshire has been frozen by the county council.

Partnerships between social workers, police and health workers could speed up interventions for children, an evaluation of a multi-agency safeguarding hubs has found.

A PRIVATE care home was put on formal warning this week amid “urgent” concerns that vulnerable residents are not getting enough to eat and drink and some staff are not qualified to look after them.

AN assistant manager at a care home has admitted tying a 68-year-old man with dementia to a handrail.

THREE quarters of people in Britain intend to take on the burden of looking after their elderly relatives – because they don’t trust care homes, it emerged yesterday.