An independent board is likely to be set up to help make “urgent improvements” to Children’s Services in Cornwall.

Ofsted’s work always generates considerable interest and sometimes controversy. I think this is because we report on things that matter deeply to parents and the public, and we sometimes have to give hard messages. It is our job to stand up for the interests of children, young people and adult learners. They are the people for whom robust and independent inspection matters most.

Ofsted today faces calls for a radical overhaul to restore public confidence amid fresh accusations that it is so concerned with protecting its own reputation that it is failing to properly protect children.

The Audit Commission wants councils and the NHS to move away from concentrating on the mechanics of joint financing and the processes of partnership and instead look at how their joint funding can improve people’s lives.

A RAGING dad who threatened to kill two social workers walked free from court with an anger programme to calm him down.

Ofsted has been hit by a massive broadside fom teaching and social services leaders as ‘flawed, wasteful and failing’.

DOZENS of vulnerable adults face having their lives turned upside down as part of a cost-cutting exercise by Wirral Council, a care provider has claimed.

Council chiefs in St Helens have won a landmark ruling over who should foot what is billed as the most expensive care package in the UK.

A social worker who failed to seek immediate medical help for her own baby daughter and lied about how the injuries were caused has been struck off.

The Conservatives were today accused of “scaremongering” after claiming that more than 2 million elderly people could lose out under the government’s plan to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners.