The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is urging local authorities not to cut training budgets for social workers in a drive to save money.

The government’s social work recruitment campaign has attracted 18,000 enquiries from those interested in joining the profession.

A social services manager from North Yorkshire has been suspended for writing a reference that helped a perverted youth worker land a job with Cumbrian teenagers.

Police investigating the alleged abuse of children at a nursery have re-arrested two people. Detectives launched an inquiry after three children suffered “unexplained” broken bones at the Rocking Horse Nursery in Plumtree, near Nottingham.

Victims of alleged child abuse in Jersey said today they had been vindicated after a former carer was jailed for two years for a string of sex attacks. Gordon Wateridge, 78, nicknamed “the perv” by his victims, repeatedly sexually assaulted three teenagers at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home during the 1970s.

A SOCIAL worker has been struck off after a committee accepted allegations of misconduct involving two young girls in the 1980s. Douglas Makey, 49, who worked for Kent County Council, was banned from being a social worker after a three-day hearing of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).