Children’s services in nine local authority areas, including Haringey where Baby Peter was killed, have been rated as “poor” in a report by Ofsted.

The director of a children’s services department which admitted failings in the protection of a murdered toddler has been sacked.

The government will develop resources to help young people with mental health problems move from child to adult services as part of its strategy on mental health, published yesterday.

Increasing job opportunities for people with mental health conditions and improving the wellbeing of workers is part of a wide-ranging new Government vision to enhance mental health services and boost the wellbeing of the whole population.

A BELEAGURED children’s services boss will be offered one least chance to resign or will be sacked, the M.E.N. can reveal.

A social worker who stripped bare the home of a vulnerable pensioner after she went into respite care has been jailed for four years.

WIRRAL is leading the way in training social services and health workers in the new “personalisation” approach to helping vulnerable people.

The number of children forced to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks has doubled in recent years in a dramatic expansion of Labour’s anti-paedophile vetting regime.

A FORMER director of social services for Cheshire is to take over as head of England’s top independent health and social care watchdog.

The Law Commission is planning ‘very important and potentially very exciting’ reforms to the law on social care for adults, the commission’s new chairman said in an interview for the Gazette.