Local authorities and residential care providers are being encouraged to think more carefully about the needs of children in care after the government published data on the use of children’s homes across England.

A SOCIAL worker suspended over the Sanam Navsarka case has been reinstated. The Deighton two-year-old, inset, died in 2008 after suffering more than 100 injuries.

A GP suspended for failing to spot that Baby P was being abused today apologised and said: “I let him down – I failed the baby.”

A proposed shake-up for social workers has been given the thumbs up by Cornwall Council’s cabinet.

Social workers have been left ‘shocked and angry’ by an article (see below) in the Sunday Telegraph smearing the specialised work of child protection with completely false and inaccurate claims about the practice of children’s social care departments.

THE distraught dad of a woman kept prisoner in a loft by her abusive husband, has said social services failed his daughter.

Surrey County Council paid about £2.5m last year to healthcare providers for beds it did not use, it has emerged.

NHS care watchdog accuses Castlebeck of systemic failures at Winterbourne View, including not reporting serious incidents

The chairman of Castlebeck has resigned following revelations of abuse at two of the firm’s care homes. Paul Brosnan, who was chairman of Castlebeck for nearly three years, has quit and will be replaced by Dick Stockford, a healthcare consultant with experience across a number of senior posts in the NHS.