A package aimed at families worried about elderly parents is being launched at a time of growing doubt about the efficacy of telehealth

It has been confirmed that Castlebeck, the care provider at the centre of the Winterbourne View care home scandal, has now entered administration.

The need for a relationship-based approach to social work practice is greater than ever but public sector cuts are reducing the role of social workers to little more than one of “managing crisis”.

Child sex abuse investigations put too much focus on the victims’ credibility and not enough on the suspects, says the director of public prosecutions as he announces a shake-up of guidelines.

An undermining of the value of the service they provide will not only impact on their terms and conditions but on the quality of service they provide says GMB

BASW has responded to education secretary Michael Gove’s assertion that the current social work reform agenda will enable social workers to spend the time they need with at risk children by calling for more far reaching reforms of practice, training and funding.

Ofsted’s deputy chief inspector and director of social care John Goldup is to leave the inspectorate by “mutual agreement” this month and will be replaced by the current president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

Police have received more than 5,000 reports of under-18-year-olds sexually abusing other children over the last three years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

Brain injury patients are at risk of ending up on the streets or entering the criminal justice system once they leave hospital because over-stretched social care departments are struggling to support them, a Senior Social Worker warned.

Social workers still suffer from an image problem, MPs were told by a social worker at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work’s inquiry into the state of the profession.