New services for people with dementia are being planned in Bath after the go-ahead for a £50 million project across the west. The joint initiative to provide specialist care facilities will also see new care homes being built in Wiltshire.

The Care Leavers’ Association (CLA) has added its voice to the growing backlash against government plans to stop funding the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC).

Social care experts and a leading drugs charity are stepping up calls for social workers to receive compulsory specialist training in drug and alcohol abuse.

Social workers have been criticised as “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents” by the judge who takes charge of the family courts today.

PROTESTS are being stepped up against proposed cuts to help vulnerable adults in Nottingham. Residents said they were appalled at the city council’s proposal to absorb its deaf team into a larger department, during a public meeting organised by Unison yesterday.

HUNDREDS of staff working in crucial mental health posts in medical centres and home visit services across Camden were sacked over the Easter holiday.

The former manager of a Somerset care home who stole drugs from its residents to feed her own addiction has been found guilty of killing one of them.

A SENIOR social worker at Plymouth City Council has been accused of claiming she made home visits to children on 70 occasions when she had not.

A HOUNSLOW social worker who failed to tell his employers about a string of police cautions and convictions has been allowed to continue to practise.

Newcastle City Council has appointed John Collings as Executive Director of Children’s Services. John has held the position on a temporary basis since July 2009 overseeing all aspects of children’s services in the city, including schools, children’s social care, services for families and chairing the Newcastle Children’s Trust Board.