NINE Liverpool day centres are to close as part of the biggest shake-up in social services the city has seen in the past 60 years.

New regime expected to save £1.4bn by 2015 by incentivising work and turning down applicants, to dismay of charities

The treatment of people with disabilities has been called into question after a survey suggested that many doctors and nurses in the region felt those with learning diffi-culties received a poorer standard of care than the rest of the population.

Social care budgets need real-terms annual increases of 3.5% just to keep pace with the ageing population, according to a pre-budget briefing from the King’s Fund.

AN “exceptional” social worker will keep his job despite admitting a violent attack on his wife. Tafadzwa Dzinoruma also transferred money through the bank account of a service user to “solve his own personal family difficulties”, the General Social Care Council has revealed (GSCC).

The shocking catalogue of failure of Salford’s under-fire children’s services is today revealed. A scathing report by Ofsted inspectors has branded a key part of the children’s services as inadequate – for the second time in four years. The government could now bring in an outside team to take over.

The battle between the chief education inspector and the Government has deepended after the head of Ofsted warned she will not quit.

Long-serving social workers at Nottinghamshire county council have had their annual leave cut by three days.

Stoke-on-Trent social services officers have apologised to a wheelchair-bound woman after a social worker falsely claimed she could walk and look after herself.

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched the new report ‘Good practice in social care for refugees and asylum seekers’. The report and accompanying resources will support commissioners and providers of social care services in working effectively with this seldom heard group.