The former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Rev Richard Holloway, has come to the defence of social workers, saying the profession has become modern Britain’s scapegoat for society’s ills.

Foster carers have been put at risk by not being told that the babies they are looking after could be HIV positive.

The General Social Care Council wants to enforce a code of conduct for employers of social workers.

Mums, academics, social workers, students and unionists have slammed plans to axe an important University of Reading department.

The family doctor who regularly saw Baby P in the months before his death has been suspended from practice.

Construction work has started at two sites in Birmingham on new extra care schemes for older people.

A care worker who allegedly witnessed abuse at a Bristol care home has been suspended.

A staffing crisis means that social workers devote less than ONE HOUR a week to each child on their workload, it is being claimed.