The Metropolitan Police is looking to block an inquest into the death of Peter Connelly.

STAFF shortages, high workload and poor morale over pay cuts were some of the key factors leading to a damning report of child care intake services at Torbay Council, authority watchdogs heard.

Tracey Connelly also had a difficult background, at one stage being placed on the child protection register

TWO grandmothers, accused of ill-treating a disabled resident at a Nuneaton care home, have had the charges dropped– after a year-long “nightmare”.

A MAN whose 92-year-old mum lives at the threatened Ladesfield care home in Whitstable claims the closures consultation meeting was a total sham.

Social workers in the West Midlands have welcomed Sandwell Council’s decision to pull out of the government’s social work practice pilot for children in care.

BASW’s chief executive Hilton Dawson has written to the prime minister to urge him to prioritise social work jobs and services at the expense of arts funding

Unison is in talks to negotiate a joint membership deal that could see more than 40,000 of its social work professionals become the founding members of the College of Social Work.

A FORMER director of social services for Cheshire has called for lessons to be learned following the death of a patient at the hands of an out of hours doctor from Germany.