A social worker who stole over £50,000 in cash from a charity she worked for has been removed from the profession by an independent committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

Hounslow Council has stopped paying the healthcare provider which runs a care home closed following a legionnaires scare.

Local authorities are facing a huge task to get care users ready for the shift to a market in services, according to the think-tank, Dermos. It has published figures which show more than 80 per cent of people who need social and health care have almost no understanding of the new personal budget system.

CARE home staff are today reeling over Devon County Council’s revelation that it plans to cut 200 jobs from the sector, as the authority aims to shave £5 million from running costs over three years.

SERVICES to the elderly could be targeted as Torbay Care Trust tries to bring a projected £1.9million overspend under control.

92% of the older people surveyed said they knew little or nothing about the government’s new scheme to introduce personal budgets for social care

A CHILDREN’S services boss who was suspended in the aftermath of the murder of a toddler has launched a counter attack against a town hall chief.

A man who sexually abused a minor (referred to as ‘Ms A’) has been removed from the Social Care Register by an independent committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

A new qualification to enter the children’s workforce is under development, after concerns from childcare employers that standards had been set too high.