Children in the UK have actually never had it so good, but that doesn’t mean more can’t be done to help them, writes Dave Clements.

NINE staff at a residential care home have been suspended after claims they used inappropriate language and behaviour when dealing with clients.

A MAN convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl has been removed from the Social Care Register by an independent committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

Rotherham Council has unveiled plans to overhaul its children’s services after an independent report showed a lack of vision and purpose.

CABINET members of the county council agreed to give people more choice in their social care at their latest meeting.

COUNCIL-FUNDED care places for older people will need to double as the number of over-65s rockets by a fifth, councillors agreed. But they said older people must be encouraged to live in their own homes.

Children’s social workers are being gagged from speaking about failings in their department to avoid the glare of the media, a union leader has claimed.

The long-awaited social care green paper has set out the government’s ambition for a national care service that could offer a basic minimum entitlement to all, regardless of financial means.