A strategy is needed to improve joint working between government departments and public services to rehabilitate young people with multiple needs and help them escape a life in the criminal justice system, a charity has claimed.

A social worker accused of “colluding” with an abusive mother to silence allegations she beat her children was struck off today. The Merton Council employee allegedly befriended the woman she was supposed to be monitoring and rubbished her estranged partner’s claims their children were in danger.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has hit out over a lack of commitment from politicians to protecting child protection resources.

TEN care workers have lost their jobs and 11 elderly residents were given just a fortnight to find somewhere to live after the manager of their care home announced that it was closing.

HOPES to build a new retirement village near Darwen town centre have been quashed after a bid for £30million funding was thrown out.

The NSPCC has been accused of breaking the rules governing charities’ involvement in the general election, by allegedly allowing an employee to work on Luton South independent candidate Esther Rantzen’s campaign, CYP Now has learned.

Gordon Brown won two standing ovations from delegates at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual conference after a highly personal speech lauding them as “angels dressed as nurses” and offering a commitment to increase spending on frontline services.

A former social worker at Birmingham City Council, Angela Turner, has been removed from the Social Care Register for allegations including inappropriate and abusive language towards a service user.