Children with learning difficulties and deaf young people are being encouraged to stay safe online with a set of resources launched by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop).

The director of Birmingham’s children’s social care department has been suspended, the city council has said.

Concerns have been expressed about a cash-starved council’s plans to privatise more of its social care network for elderly residents after it emerged more than 1,000 hospital bed days are being lost each year because of severe delays in the home care system.

Hundreds of public sector workers in Bath have refused to reveal their sexual orientation to their employer.

A group of social workers in Bristol are to set up their own practice in a bid to reduce bureaucracy.

Just how well Jersey looks after its young people in care is being looked in a ten-month independent inspection.

THE UK’s powerful equality watchdog has accused Wirral Council of discriminating against disabled people – and it could cost the town hall £500,000 in compensation.

A NURSE punched a patient who used a zimmer frame and told the sobbing man his ‘crocodile tears’ would not help, a hearing was told.

A mental health charity has become a victim of spending cuts which could put lives at risk. The Hartlepool mental health charity Mind is facing a funding crisis due to the government spending cuts, the Hartlepool Mail reported.

New policy aimed at freeing up hospital beds helps patients but fails to deliver hoped-for savings