Care workers based in homes across Essex have received compensation after a tribunal ruled they were unfairly dismissed from their jobs.

The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is to be scrapped, with responsibility for regulating social workers transferred to the Health Professions Council (HPC).

Nottingham City Council’s new residential care home for people with dementia, is being officially opened next week (Friday, July 30) by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Brian Grocock.

CALLS have been made for a public inquiry into the handling of abuse claims at a Colchester care home.

Social services in Rochdale could face cuts of up to £25m, it has been revealed. As part of an attempt to save £50m, Rochdale Council is cutting up to 25 per cent of individual departmental budgets across the local authority.

A new approach to child protection for older children is urgently needed in order to ensure their safeguarding, according to a three year study, published by The Children’s Society, the NSPCC and the University of York and funded by the Big Lottery.

MORE than £1 million in compensation has been paid out to 10 children who were failed by social services in the Midlands.

A NEW director will be taking over the troubled children’s services at Essex County Council as the department looks to appoint 40 foreign social workers.

Mental health organisations are calling for an urgent investigation into why safeguards introduced to prevent people who lack capacity being detained unnecessarily in care homes and hospitals are being significantly under-used.

A MAN has been arrested over allegations of “ill-treatment or neglect” at a South Tyneside care home. A female manager at Hillcrest Care Home, in Wear Street, Jarrow, has also been suspended following a police investigation.