Safeguards to protect vulnerable children in Gloucestershire are better now than they were in 2010, government inspectors have said.

Proposals to set up a new company to provide social care in Northamptonshire are to be considered by the county council.

POLICE have revealed they are no closer to catching a bogus social worker accused of sexually assaulting a two-year-old boy.

Ahead of the paper’s publication the College of Social Work’s Owen Davies outlines what he’d like the government to focus on

A care worker was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation following a fire in a Whitton care home last night.

Remploy – which provides work for people with disabilities – is planning to close 36 of its 54 factories, putting more than 1,700 jobs at risk.

Over a thousand older and disabled people have turned up to a mass lobby of parliament.

Two nurses have been arrested on suspicion of fraud in connection with an investigation into a Hampshire County Council-run care home.

Small and inexpensive changes to working practices and training for staff can transform services for families affected by parental mental ill health, according to a report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

A serious case review into the sexual assault and murder of a 15-year-old Polish girl by a convicted sex offender has uncovered failings in communications between the police and public protection agencies in Humberside and Leeds.