BASW’s Advice and Representation Service has urged social workers to be allowed to re-register while they are suspended from duties as news emerged that the two social workers at the centre of the Baby Peter case will face conduct hearings more than 17 months after investigations were launched.

Five care homes are planned to be built in the North East in an effort to create new jobs and offer new residences for pensioners in the region. Rosewood Homes, which has just completed a 75-bed luxury care home in Gateshead, has plans to create five more residential homes over the next two years which would create over 400 new jobs.

An overwhelming 89% of Social Workers have voted to take control of their own profession by voting ‘yes’ in a referendum on establishing an independent College of Social Work.

HOPES to build a new retirement village near Darwen town centre have been quashed after a bid for £30million funding was thrown out.

The NSPCC has been accused of breaking the rules governing charities’ involvement in the general election, by allegedly allowing an employee to work on Luton South independent candidate Esther Rantzen’s campaign, CYP Now has learned.

Gordon Brown won two standing ovations from delegates at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual conference after a highly personal speech lauding them as “angels dressed as nurses” and offering a commitment to increase spending on frontline services.

A former social worker at Birmingham City Council, Angela Turner, has been removed from the Social Care Register for allegations including inappropriate and abusive language towards a service user.

Social work interventions have cut child deaths and improved the life chances for vulnerable young people, the BASW England conference heard last week.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has been criticised by a High Court judge over comments he made at the time of Sharon Shoesmith’s sacking in 2008.

The new person responsible for delivering adult social care in Cumbria as well as running the county’s libraries, archives, registrars, coroners, Local Links and customer contact services has been appointed by Cumbria County Council.