A new director has taken over the running of Leeds City Council’s children’s services department.

A social services chief who helped systematically plunder the bank accounts of seven highly vulnerable victims in his care, to the tune of around £94,000 has been jailed for 21 months.

An emergency home-based respite service for carers is being launched by Wolverhampton City Council’s Carer Support Team.

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) President Marion Davis has called for more focus on early intervention rather than earlier identification to reduce the number of children being referred to children’s services due to abuse or neglect.

A couple who allowed their adopted daughters to be abused by two paedophiles were jailed today for child cruelty after a judge condemned their “deplorable and terrible betrayal of trust”.

A retired lecturer from Suffolk has been jailed for three months over indecent images of children.

A BULLYING care home matron who formed a mock jazz band to torment elderly residents has been allowed to continue nursing.

Independent social workers were given fresh hope over the government’s plans to cap their fees after the Law Society won a judicial review quashing the outcome of the tender round for new family legal aid contracts.

UK employers are being stopped from hiring much-needed staff from outside the EU following the introduction of a temporary immigration cap.

Thirty-four care homes and eight agencies providing care in people’s homes have closed in the past 12 months following regulatory action and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) says the system is about to get tougher.