Following the Winterbourne View serious case review, BASW is urging the government to impose statutory regulation on the employment of care staff, so that the proposed Code of Conduct can be properly enforced.

King’s Fund says if all PCTs worked to best standards, £462m could be saved with cut of 2.3m overnight hospital stays

A CARE home treating people with dementia will continue to be monitored by regulators after an inspection still found failings.

Guest blogger Roger Marsden, head of retirement at Aviva, looks at the Government’s plans for social care and the steps those nearing retirement are already taking to prepare.

Following the publication of the serious case review on Winterbourne View, the private hospital where abuse of patients with learning disabilities was uncovered through secret filming by the BBC Panorama programme, BASW has called for services to be localised and for social workers to be integral to their provision.

Total government expenditure on services down by £150m, the first reduction since 2001, says Department of Health report

Independent expert details hundreds of incidents of restraint and dozens of assaults on patients by staff at private hospital

THE DARLINGTON-based owners of scandal-hit care home Winterbourne View have vowed that the catalogue of abuse at the hospital would not be repeated at any of its other homes.

The number of toddlers and young children being adopted has risen to its highest level for 35 years amid a Government drive to move more children in care to stable families.

BASW has debunked the Institute of Psychiatry’s (IoP) explanation of its decision to scrap the MSc Mental Health Social Work, accusing the Institute of putting profit before good practice.