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.

DISTRESSED residents, their families and staff from district care homes facing closure or a sell-off have held emergency meetings.

THE first phase of Southport’s £5m state-of-the-art dementia care facility has been completed. A brood of chickens were the first residents to move in to Birch Abbey – described as the UK’s most advanced dementia care resource.

A new head of children’s services at Cambridgeshire County Council has been appointed. Adrian Loades succeeds Gordon Jeyes as the new executive director of children and young people’s services.

LOOMING Government spending cuts will force social services to find more efficient ways of helping vulnerable residents, managers have warned.

A Haringey social worker today accepted undisclosed compensation over the authority’s false claim that she did not raise concerns about returning Baby P to his mother.

An elderly man suffered minor burns after being trapped in a fire at a sheltered housing complex in Suffolk.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first local authority to make web pages easily accessible to people with learning disabilities on their council website.