More than 500 cases of old people being abused were reported in Caerphilly county borough last year. 254 cases involved people aged over 65 and 29 per cent of the abuses were physical, 38 per cent neglect, 27 per cent emotional and psychological, 20 per cent financial and six per cent sexual.

A HIT squad could be brought in to tackle the “systematic failure” of Neath Port Talbot’s social services department. Helen Mary Jones, the AM for Llanelli, said the move should be considered following the case of Briton Ferry paedophile David Owens, who raped a girl and forced children to have sex together.

A FULL-SCALE investigation has been demanded following the case of a paedophile who raped a five-year-old girl in Port Talbot and forced children to have sex together.

THE father of a 15-year-old boy with Down’s Syndrome says it is a disgrace that a centre for young people with learning difficulties in Wrexham is to close.

ONLINE auctions where contracts to care for vulnerable people are given to the lowest bidder should be banned so they can never happen in Wrexham.

FORTY members of staff at Swansea’s social services department have faced disciplinary action in the past 24 months. And half of those employees were reprimanded following complaints from the very people they were supposed to be helping.

THE sexual abuse of a foster family’s children by a teenager in their care was part of “systemic failures” in a council’s social services, a union has claimed.

Vale of Glamorgan Council has promised to change the structure of its children’s and adult services departments after it published the findings of an inquiry into how a teenage sex offender was placed with a family with young children whom he went on to abuse.

ONLINE auctions where contracts to care for vulnerable people are given to the lowest bidder should be banned so they can never happen in Wrexham and Flintshire.

Three social workers were suspended today after a youth with a history of sexual offences was placed in a home with two young children.