Child protection chiefs say Kent County Council is already making improvements in response to the authority’s recent ‘inadequate’ Ofsted inspection.

Westminster council today set out a £50million cuts package which will see some of the most vulnerable residents hit hardest over the next two years.

NGOIndex boss says some financially-stretched voluntary organisations are taking on projects without the necessary expertise or management structure

Long term funding has been secured for a team of Social Work Assistants to work alongside Social Workers in Bristol.

The government has no plans to review the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales, a justice minister has confirmed.

A social worker who sent inappropriate and offensive emails to colleagues and friends has left her job at Hammersmith and Fulham Council after being found guilty of misconduct.

A TRUSTED care worker who plundered more than £10,000 from the accounts of two extremely vulnerable patients was jailed.

​“ANTHONY had his life cruelly and abruptly ended, but he is constantly in our thoughts and will remain so.” Those were the words of the family of Anthony Pinder, who died after being restrained by untrained staff at a care home in Stallingborough.

Independent social workers (ISWs) faced further insult last month when a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation on legal aid reforms failed to mention social work in a comprehensive list of hourly court fee rates payable to expert witnesses of all professions.

The Westminster Health Select Committee has said efficiency gains will need to be made ‘on an unprecedented scale’ in health and social care in England, despite earlier assurances from care services minister Paul Burstow that local authorities have no excuses to make cuts to adult social care.