There is mounting unease in the early years sector, following the Cabinet reshuffle, that early years and childcare policy is being pushed down the Department for Education’s to-do list.

Care provider and charity The Fremantle Trust have announced a Buckinghamshire drive to attract more younger people into a career in social care, with an apprenticeship scheme becoming active at its branches in Aylesbury, Wing, Beaconsfield and Princes Risborough.

There is hope that at least Norman Lamb, who replaces Paul Burstow as care minister, will appreciate that cuts in social care will have a significant impact on health, by David Brindle

Carers of adults with physical and learning difficulties in Guernsey have given a mixed response to new plans for the provision of respite care.

A surprise inspection is under way into Birmingham City Council’s children’s services. Ofsted inspectors will spend a total of eight days examining the work of the city’s social workers.

The first figures for the new adult social care outcomes framework have been published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

As the Council of Europe’s GRETA (Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings) today releases a report on trafficked children, BASW is supporting GRETA’s call for better services and more specialist trained staff.

An investigation into the death of an elderly woman has revealed gaps in the understanding of domestic abuse in old age, experts warn.

A sharp rise in hospital admissions for stress over the last year was widely covered in the papers today, with The Independent linking the increase to the recession and the Daily Mail pointing out that more men were treated in hospital for stress than women.

BASW is urging social workers to use today’s World Suicide Prevention Day to begin confronting taboos about suicide and depression, as a preventative film is launched with part funding from the Association.