A Devon County Council care home has been told to make improvements following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

THE former chief executive of an Essex addiction treatment centre is set to appear before a disciplinary committee next month to answer serious allegations of misconduct.

HAMPSHIRE’s children’s services chief is to take over the responsibility for the Isle of Wight in the wake of the damning Ofsted inspection, which branded child protection ‘inadequate’.

The new Harwood Care and Support Charter sets out a way of working to which care providers who sign up to it will pledge to abide by.

Heaton Norris’ social services office had doors badly damaged and was smoke logged following the blaze on Tuesday.

A senior politician has stressed that Bradford Council’s frontline social worker teams have not suffered from cuts, as the Telegraph & Argus exclusively revealed 81 employees from that department have left in the last two years.

Less than half of dementia sufferers living in care homes enjoy a good quality of life, a charity has warned as it revealed that record numbers of people in care homes have the condition.

Martin Sheedy, a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University social work team, has recently launched a groundbreaking new book in the social work field entitled ‘Core Themes in Social Work: Power, Poverty, Politics and Values.’

A FORMER nurse manager of a baby hospice is to face a misconduct hearing over an accusation she failed to report concerns about sexual abuse.

In a Huffington Post blog, BASW’s press officer assesses how the media is being used to promote the government’s proposals on welfare reform by demonising benefit claimants such as mum of 11 Heather Frost.