Vale of Glamorgan Council has said ‘there are no excuses’ after it placed a disturbed teenager in foster care with young children he went on to abuse.

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

READERS who have followed the events of the “Baby Peter” case will almost certainly be aware that Haringey Council has now dismissed four managers, including the director of children’s services, and a social worker.

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

The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) is developing a ‘rural practitioner’ role that would make GPs in parts of Wales responsible for social care services as well as health.

A care home providing services for those with dementia in South Wales has been stopped from closing down by last-minute funding.

A planning committee has met to decide whether to give the go-ahead to a 90- bed nursing home on the site of an army barracks later.

THE appointment of a team of experts to oversee Swansea Council’s failing children’s services has been welcomed by the authority.

The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has announced a reform to the way in which social services are reviewed and inspected.

A TEAM of experts appointed to ensure a council’s children’s services are successfully overhauled was revealed yesterday.