AN investigation has been launched into the suspected suicide of a 23-year-old man who had been in the care of Waltham Forest Social Services.

Children are at risk of harm due to inadequate and late assessments by Kent County Council’s social services team, Ofsted has warned.

A GROUP of social workers from America have been getting to grips with life in England after being drafted in to help fill staffing shortages in the county’s social services department.

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.

A council criticised for failing to protect vulnerable children has cut student social work placements from 208 to just 89, Unison claims.

Plans for a new home in a Wiltshire town specialising in care for people with dementia have been approved.

NORTH Yorkshire and York Community and Mental Health Services have been praised in a national survey.

Four high-profile cases have focused attention on a form of abuse often underplayed – child neglect. But, asks Mark Ivory, at what point should protection workers intervene?

An approved school housemaster from West Yorkshire who became a scout leader and council director of social services carried out a string of sex attacks on vulnerable boys at a school over a period of years, a court has heard.