A grandmother has won the legal right to the same rate for looking after her granddaughter as would be paid to a foster carer with no family connections.

A 50-year-old Bedfordshire man died in a car fire in the grounds of a care home in Cambridgeshire, a coroner has said. Fidelis Mando, of Plaiters Way, Houghton Regis, was in the car which caught fire at Dray House care home in Cambridge Road, St Neots, on 1 May.

The co-owner of a Herefordshire care home has been arrested on suspicion of neglect. Madhu Menon owns Rosedale Retirement Home in Ross-on-Wye with her husband.

Council chiefs have ‘revolutionised’ the way social workers record cases after a former employee was struck off. Alcus Dunn is banned from practising as a social worker after a catalogue of failures while working for Herts County Council.

Children’s services staff at crisis-hit Doncaster Council have been offered voluntary redundancy as part of plans to redirect £700,000 to improve safeguarding services.

One of the longest-running legal cases in UK history, centred on systemic sexual abuse at children’s homes in the north-west of England, is poised to end after a judge found in favour of two men who claimed they had been sexually assaulted while in care.

A social work degree student has spoken out after being thrown out of his practice placement just because he writes a regular column for BASW’s Professional Social Work magazine.

A WOMAN was jailed for grooming and abusing a young girl, more than 20 years ago. Liverpool crown court heard openly-gay social worker June Higgins, 40, was just 16 when she befriended her 12-year-old victim.

A man who killed his newborn daughter the first time he was left alone with her was jailed for five years today. Christopher Sellman’s daughter, Tiffany Sellman Burdge was just 25 days old when she died after suffering heart failure and bleeding to the brain while alone with her father in November 2008.

Bolton Council has scrapped its education welfare service as part of a value-for-money review. The review, of all local children’s services, will see Connexions staff take on responsibility for improving attendance in local primary and secondary schools.