New commissioning models will not meet the challenge of the growing need for dementia care, reveals a new report by leading think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).

PENSIONERS at nine Coventry and Warwickshire care homes face being made homeless if the firm that runs them cannot solve its financial problems, a leading union has warned.

WIRRAL Council has received a glowing report from Ofsted following an inspection into its ‘safeguarding and looked after’ children’s services.

UNISON has published a dossier of social work cuts that they claim will risk the lives of children and vulnerable adults in Birmingham.

COUNCIL staff could be given the chance to bid for the running of a care service for elderly people in York as it faces privatisation.

Following World Social Work Day, Janet Murray spends a day with two newly qualified child protection workers and visits some of the families in their care

A REBEL Liverpool charity has declared independence from the UK’s largest age charity with a scathing attack on their “bureaucratic” and “wasteful” operation.

Thousands of vulnerable residents face cuts to their social care after a controversial proposal was approved by West Sussex County Council.

A domestic violence support group which has lost its funding said social workers do not have the time or skills to help victims when it closes.

Halton Borough Council’s director of children’s services is set to be the first in the country to carry out the role across two local authorities.