Ensuring social care workers do not become victims of a blame culture when there are failures must become a top priority, ministers have been warned.

A PROPOSAL to spend almost £1.5 million as part of transforming adult social care in Liverpool is to be considered by the city council’s Cabinet on Friday (July 9).

The Information Commissioner’s Office has rapped three councils over the knuckles for being sloppy with the personal details of thousands of children.

A SOCIAL worker lost sensitive information about two children at Heathrow Airport after giving its security ‘no real thought’, a probe has found.

Plans for children leaving care must be reviewed by a social worker rather than a personal adviser, a High Court judge has ruled.

Baby Peter’s GP Dr Jerome Ikwueke has been found guilty by the General Medical Council (GMC) of a series of breaches of his professional duty.

A council spent £300,000 bringing in experts on £700-a-day rates after its child protection service was branded ‘inadequate’ – only to get exactly the same rating three years later.

AN Evesham teenager who has lived in foster care for several years has slammed a council’s social services department, accusing it of neglecting her when she needed help most.

Local authority youth services are in need of a complete overhaul, the junior children’s minister has claimed.