A coroner investigating the death of a baby girl who was suffocated by her sleeping dad has slammed social services for ignoring health staff advice and allowing her to go home with her heroin addict parents.

COUNTY social work chiefs have stopped taking on new recruits and banned conferences in a bid to balance the books.

Elderly people will receive free care to help them to stay in their own homes under plans which will form the heart of the Government’s programme ahead of the election.
 

THE former boss of a council youth chief who claims she was bullied and harassed out of a job has denied claims he wanted to get rid of her.

A new report, ‘Cutting the Cost’, has found that people with dementia – who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds – cost the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year, occupying hospital beds for significantly longer periods than other patients.

A COUPLE posing as social workers today tricked their way into a house. Police have issued a warning to householders to check identification and call the relevant organisation if in any doubt.

The government’s plan to offer the most vulnerable people free social care in their own homes in England has been met with a cool response.