Nicola Jacobson is dementia adviser for the Alzheimer’s Society Jacobson has been a dementia adviser in Sheffield since the role was created under the government’s national dementia strategy in 2009. She says co-designed services are making a difference in the social care sector.

Croydon Council is creating a private company to run its adult social care and housing services.

Sacked social services chief Sharon Shoesmith today spoke of her distress and sorrow over the death of Baby Peter as she warned that the “whole story” of what happened to the toddler had not yet been told.

A fall in the number of young people in prison has not resulted in improved conditions for the majority of incarcerated young people, The Howard League for Penal Reform has warned.

Professionals must be better trained to spot the signs of children being exploited, it has been claimed.

ENFIELD Council celebrated achieving a top award for its care of the disabled last week. The borough was awarded Beacon status for its work helping disabled adults live independently last year.

A social worker who admitted taking on two full-time jobs simultaneously, but denied she had been dishonest in not telling both employers, has been cleared of misconduct by a General Social Care Council conduct committee.

Social workers in Derby have lost their battle with the city council to keep allowances for the use of private cars, with Unison agreeing to call a halt to industrial action.  

A CARE worker who claimed benefits totalling over £60,000 has been jailed. Joy Rukyemampunzi, of Saint Dunstan’s Close, Hayes, was sentenced to six months imprisonment and ordered to pay £10,000 in compensation to Hillingdon Council after admitting to five counts of benefit fraud.

TWENTY new jobs could be created in the Selby area if plans to expand a care home are approved. The Mansion House Nursing Home in Main Road, Drax, intends to extend its premises to provide a new unit for dementia patients.