A FORMER teacher in charge of children’s services in Cornwall has resigned, days before the publication of a report expected to find serious flaws in aspects of his department’s work.

A social worker advised care workers who were trying to calm down a distressed autistic man with the mental age of a toddler to have him arrested.

The RCN has launched an online consultation asking members for their views on the future of the social care system in England.

THE men at the helm of Birmingham’s failing children’s social services department today vowed to be “absolutely relentless in improving front line services” after a damning internal report revealed “systemic failures”.

A peer who headed inquiries into two high profile child abuse cases has opened an academy for social workers.

The social work model in a city where eight children known to social workers have died in the past four years was branded unfit for purpose by a damning official inquiry today.