Campaigners have voiced alarm at revelations that staff in immigration detention centres and officers escorting children onto planes for deportation are authorised to use restraint techniques.

The costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world’s gross domestic product this year at $604bn (£388bn), a report says.

Social workers are leading a new group, set up to make it easier for people living in County Durham to report concerns over the safety of children.

A renowned and experienced child safeguarding professional has been named as the new independent chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board Northamptonshire.

A nursing home worker who stole £50,000 from elderly residents to finance his cocaine habit and flash lifestyle has been jailed for 18 months.

JOBS in healthcare and social work are set to be slashed in Barnsley as part of multi-agency plans to cut a £5.5 million deficit in its budget.

A woman who illegally claimed benefits for nine years while owning a £500,000 property portfolio has been ordered to repay more than £110,000.

THE head of a Teesside council’s adult services department, responsible for adult social care services, has been suspended in the wake of a critical care quality inspection.

A initiative aimed at helping homeless children was launched this week. Street to School, a partnership between insurance firm Aviva and charity Railway Children, aims to help 100,000 children at risk on UK streets.

A SOCIAL worker who plied a teenage girl with booze kept his job after bosses decided his motives were “not sexual”.