A Taunton mental health unit where three people killed themselves last year has been criticised by a watchdog.

By introducing gang injunctions, the British government is adopting a policy that has failed to reduce violence in the US

Child protection should be less about red tape, targets and form-filling and more about looking after the child, an official report says.

BASW – The College of Social Work has welcomed the interim findings of Professor Eileen Munro but urged her to go further in the extent to which her report addresses failings in the child protection system.

When managers see Ray Hart and his team coming, they sometimes bolt the door. “People don’t like us doing what we do,” he admits. “But we are what we are. As an accountant, I don’t presume to be a particularly popular person. I’m used to it.”

People with mental health problems will be particularly vulnerable under the changes ahead, yet those I’ve spoken to seem resigned to their fate, says Clare Allan

SOCIAL Housing provider Home Group is set to create more than 130 jobs with plans to open its first dedicated call centre in the North East after seeing its revenues rise by more than £60m.

DUDLEY Council has appointed its new director of adult, community and housing services. Andrea Pope-Smith is due to take up her new role later this month after joining from Sandwell Council, where she was the director of adult services and health.

The toll that alcohol takes on many people’s lives is laid bare in a survey which has prompted fresh calls for action to tackle widespread chronic drinking across Britain.

MORE than 700 council employees have been told their jobs are at risk due to cuts in Government funding.