Westminster City Council is looking to buy a social care software system, worth up to £20 million. The council will sign a framework deal with up to three suppliers, covering a four year period.

RAOUL Moat had repeatedly appealed for psychiatric help from social workers, tapes he secretly recorded show.

“Good training and development opportunities are promoted and are well regarded by social workers, enabling them to provide a good service to the most vulnerable children.

Mental health sufferers in Oxfordshire are at risk as a quarter of all hospital community jobs face the chop, the Unite union has warned.

The sale of 12 care homes to the private sector has been approved by Nottinghamshire County Council. The homes will go on sale in September and the process is expected to take between 12 and 18 months.

Turning Point, one of the UK’s leading health and social care providers, today launched research findings which highlight that the majority of Brits believe people living with a learning disability are the group most discriminated against in society.

A SOCIAL worker has been cautioned after she was found guilty of misconduct.

Social services in Manchester have been criticised in an independent review into the care given to a baby boy who was left brain damaged and blinded.

The fugitive gunman Raoul Moat had repeatedly appealed for psychiatric help in a series of conversations with social workers which he secretly recorded, as Channel 4 News correspondent Darshna Soni analyses how the tapes show his “deep paranoia”.

LANCASHIRE’s new advice service for people with dementia has been hailed as a ‘flagship’ at its launch at the start of Dementia Awareness Week.