TWENTY-eight elderly people will be forced to move when a residential care home in Halesowen is shut down in January. Shenstone care home is being closed by Dudley Council as part of its policy of helping to live more independently at half the cost.

Ofsted today announced plans to inspect children’s social care services without notice.

The British Association of Social Workers is supporting Ofsted proposals for changing the social work culture by introducing ’no notice inspections’ and focusing on direct observations of social work practice.

Kent County Council has finally appointed a permanent head of its struggling children’s services team after months of funding an expensive temporary boss.

After formally commissioning a comprehensive review of child protection in June last year, the government’s response to Professor Eileen Munro’s report marks an important step in mapping out its future strategy for safeguarding the country’s most vulnerable children.

VITAL children’s services in Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster will be led by a single director from September.

The government has been urged to clarify how new patient involvement structures will hold services to account over provision for young people, or risk marginalising the voice of child patients.

An investigation has been launched after allegations of abuse have recently come to light at a young people’s home in Tyneside.
 

A ‘BEASTLY and abhorrent’ couple inflicted a catalogue of injuries to their baby and tried to cover it up by swapping her indentity with her twin.