An ex-social worker who had to be sent home early from a residential course after complaints from female colleagues has been found guilty of misconduct.

Three thousand pensioners living in care homes have been forced to sell their houses this year to pay for care, new analysis shows, equivalent to eight homes every day.
 

SOCIAL workers must be heard if problems in children’s services in Cornwall are to be solved. That was the message from the chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers, Hilton Dawson, following a report to Cornwall Council’s cabinet on how it intends to improve services to vulnerable children and young people.

An 82-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the death of a 92-year-old woman at a Dartmouth residential care home has been released on bail.

FRESH crisis talks are to be held over vital care for York’s most vulnerable people, after warnings that further budget cuts would hit frontline services.

Parental satisfaction in services for disabled children has increased in the past year, a government survey has revealed.

STAFF at two mid Cheshire autism care centres do not know if they will have jobs to go back to in the New Year.

Children who may have been abused by nursery paedophile Vanessa George are to be monitored for 15 years, the BBC has learned.