Worcestershire County Council has been told to urgently increase social care staffing after an Ofsted inspection.

A CARE worker held down two jobs with different public sector bodies at the same time, a hearing was told.

Britain’s fostering system is being strained to breaking point in the wake of the tragic death of Baby Peter, and the system will collapse unless more carers are recruited, a leading charity has warned.

OPPOSITION councillors have demanded a full investigation of the county council’s adult care services department following the double death in Wheathampstead.

A CARE worker who hit and verbally abused residents suffering from dementia at a Runcorn care home has been convicted.

SOCIAL services did everything possible to help a mother and her severely disabled daughter found dead at their Wheathampstead home at the weekend, Hertfordshire County Council has insisted.

A nursing home worker stole £50,000 from elderly residents to fund his cocaine habit. Jaspal Sandhar, 25, also spent the cash on hiring flash cars, buying designer clothes and gambling at casinos.

Social workers should work in pairs on child protection cases to prevent a repeat of the Baby Peter and Khyra Ishaq cases, says public sector union Unison.

The steep decline in public sector jobs is now clearly apparent in the Reed Job Index which reveals that it has the lowest index number of all the sectors.

Two women found dead at their Hertfordshire home on Saturday have been named as mother Stephania Wolf and daughter Sam Wolf as social services reveal they had turned down help.