Cardiff Council’s have said a report on the city’s social services should be put to the full council to make them responsible.

A controversial vetting system recently halted by the Government was an “entirely sensible measure” and did not deter volunteers from coming forward, a charity said yesterday.

A care worker who bit a man in the face during a vicious attack outside the care home where he worked has been jailed for four years.

Looked-after children who move placement repeatedly and have a negative experience of care can cost councils up to £32,755 more each year than their counterparts in stable homes, a report by Demos and Barnardo’s has found.

Advisory body the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has become bogged down by red tape and is “lurching from crisis to crisis”, according to damning evidence presented to the National Audit Office.

Patients will be given cash to purchase their own NHS care for the first time under a new Government scheme.