The president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has called for a “robust” regulatory system to deal with complaints against social workers following GSCC chief executive Mike Wardle’s suspension.

THE man in charge of all council-run children’s homes in Salford is facing the sack after being accused of gross misconduct. Mike Kelly is due to attend a disciplinary hearing in the near future.

New powers are to be introduced to enable the justice secretary, Jack Straw, to send in a team of experts to take over failing youth offending teams with powers to remove ineffective staff.

TWO senior officers in Wirral Council’s social services department – suspended from work for nine months after a Globe report into an alleged cover up of serious financial abuse of vulnerable people – are set for a shock return to work this week.

The long awaited social care green paper proposes reforms including a new ‘national care service’, but what are the implications and where will the money come from?

The UK will play a leading role in coordinated European action to tackle dementia from today (22 July 2009).
A new initiative launched by the European Commission has adopted proposals to tackle Alzheimer’s disease, dementias and other neurodegenerative conditions.  The UK is one of ten countries that will lead research aimed at tackling shared health and social care problems.