An influential group of MPs who want more children taken away from their problem families earlier are “losing the plot” according to county’s most senior civil servant.

A woman is planning to take legal action after her vulnerable mother was taken away from her home in a dramatic raid by council staff and police.

Social care employers will get £1,500 from the Department of Health for taking on an apprentice. The subsidy is part of the government’s plan to reduce unemployment. It has earmarked £75 million to get 50,000 jobless 18-to-24-year-olds into training.

The Government today outlined plans to “boost the status” of social care in order to cope with an increasingly ageing population.

TWO former care home proprietors have been questioned following a dawn raid over disability benefits worth up to £358,000.

Charges for residents in Birmingham City Council care homes have rocketed by up to £183 a week – days after the local authority said it could only afford a 49p increase in the amount it pays for elderly people to be looked after in private sector residential homes.