A PERVERTED foster carer was allowed to systematically sexually abuse young girls in his care – even after the alarm was raised by a five-year old who had been raped.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has reignited the debate on adoption, claiming that local authorities have failed to remove ethnicity as a barrier to matching potential adopters with children.

The Home Office has paid out more than £1m compensation plus £1m costs to 40 asylum-seeking children who were unlawfully locked-up in adult detention centres.

A drive to improve the safeguarding of vulnerable children in Sandwell is paying off, according to a Government watchdog.

A £1M funding windfall has been set aside to help improve mental health. Cumbria County Council will distribute the cash to organisations across the county, with the aim of taking a preventative approach to mental health problems.

They have a paradise image of being uniquely serene and a world away from the kind of modern troubles which blight the mainland.

Two social workers who lost their jobs after the killing of Baby P will appeal against an employment tribunal ruling they were fairly sacked.

The county council have announced proposed changes to adult social care, by allowing people to choose and buy online the services they need.

New council leader Jeff Green has taken control of Wirral’s crisis-hit adult social services.

Ten projects are set to share a newly created £1m government fund to tackle binge and underage drinking.