Lancashire County Council is facing a legal challenge over plans to cut its adult and children’s social care budget.

A government minister must take responsibility for runaway children and drive a national strategy to improve support for children at risk on the streets in the UK it has been agreed.

A JOB fair is being held in Yate in a bid to find more carers. South Gloucestershire Council, in partnership with Jobcentre Plus, is hosting the event for people interested in a career in care.

The charity running one of Britain’s largest care homes is complaining that welfare organisations are being pulled in “too many directions” over government quality targets at a time of slashed public spending.

The first study into sibling carers finds they struggle more than others to obtain practical and financial support

VOLUNTARY groups wishing to help out Birmingham social services by looking after elderly people have been told they must wade through a 145-page application form if they want to apply for city council grants.

A community care worker who conned a vulnerable elderly woman out of more than £3,000, and administered an injection on another victim without authority, has been sentenced.

Closer working between the NHS and social care can result in cost savings, a pilot scheme has discovered.

Responding to the revelation that local authorities are facing rising numbers of law suits from people abused as children seeking compensation for failing to protect them, BASW – The College of Social Work(BASW/CoSW) has said the cases illustrate the difficult decisions social workers have to make, with often limited support from employers.

Hundreds of young people are trying to sue local authorities in England and Wales for failing to remove them from abusive homes, lawyers are claiming.