A RETIRED social worker was sent a letter asking her to return to the profession – even though she is 82.

MORE than 150 people showed their support for Bryneithin Care Home by marching through Dinas Powys on Saturday.

A father whose two children were abused by a teenager placed with the family by Vale of Glamorgan Council has criticised the public for subjecting the social services department to a ‘witch hunt’ and baying ‘for the wrong blood’.

Child victims of trafficking have been found across Wales, says a new report today. The children were either known or suspected to have been exploited through being forced to work in restaurants and takeaways, in the production of cannabis, in sexual exploitation, in begging and in domestic servitude.

The new councillor in charge of social services in Swansea says his priority will be to lead the department out of special measures as soon as possible.

MORE than 100 people marched through a South Wales village to save a closure-threatened residential home for people with dementia.

More than £60,000 has been set aside by the County Council to combat domestic abuse in Pembrokeshire.

THE CAMPAIGN to save Bryneithin Care Home in Dinas Powys takes to the streets on March 14. A 12-week public consultation, which will end on March 31, was recently launched into Bryneithin’s future after the Vale Council agreed to a block on admissions.

A FORMER Blaenau Gwent council social worker was banned from working as a social worker in the UK after dishonestly failing to notify her employers she had been convicted of benefit fraud.

The NSPCC will oversee an inquiry into Vale of Glamorgan Council, after a teenager with a history of sexual offending was placed with a family whose children he sexually abused.