CHARGES could be increased for social care services as Wakefield Council works to save money.

Social workers should give more priority to the views of children when dealing with parents with mental health and substance misuse problems, according to a new inspection report.

‘Old lags’ including former gang members to act as mentors to inmates newly released from short sentences

The council that was at the centre of a child protection storm after two boys tortured and sexually humiliated two other youngsters has admitted that “features of that systematic failure remain today”.

A SOCIAL care manager who carried out violent sex attacks could still be on the payroll of Cornwall Council, the West Briton can reveal.

THE Audit Commission has branded Herefordshire Council’s adult social care budget “unrealistic”.

A TEENAGE girl with mental health difficulties so severe she was sectioned at just 13 years old suffered an injustice at the hands of the Isle of Wight Council, a watchdog has found.

AN EXPANDING care service company has launched a recruitment drive after creating 20 new jobs. Carewatch, which offers home help for the elderly and disabled, is looking to offer positions to people currently out of work.

Social workers in the UK are experiencing the benefits of mobile learning through the introduction of a new iPad app, aimed at helping them deliver effective care and support services.

A FORMER social care director with more than 39 years’ experience has joined the board of directors at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT).