ABOUT 150 vacancies will be on offer at a major jobs fair taking place in Derby tomorrow for people looking to work in the care sector.

A SHOPAHOLIC charity boss has been struck off the social care register after stealing almost £53,000 to spend on clothes and shoes.

Campaigners have called for a strategy to tackle the ‘woeful’ number of people with autism in unemployment, claiming the Government and Jobcentre Plus have ‘condemned’ people with the condition to a life of financial hardship.

Kent County Council is turning to America and Europe to recruit social workers and fill vacancies for key frontline jobs. The council has recently offered positions in its social services department to 19 American social workers following a recruitment drive in Boston in September.

Councils will have a duty to provide specific care for autism sufferers after a new law was passed by the House of Lords. The Autism Bill will become the first ever disability specific law after it was passed yesterday.

A social services director has admitted agents acted “too late” to save Kate Walsh, the 16-year-old girl who died of a heroin overdose, an inquest has heard.
 

A new funding system that spells out clearly what patients get for free and what they pay for in health and social care must be created after the general election, the president of the organisation that represents social services directors said on Thursday.

VOLUNTEERS, politicians and the community are united in their fight to try to stop the proposed closure of a vital Whitehaven lifeline for abused children.

More than half of social workers believe that parents’ drinking puts children at risk of harm in most child protection cases. Figures released today by Alcohol Concern, also show the majority feel their social work qualification training was inadequate in terms of alcohol abuse in families.

Children’s services are being undermined by “simplistic, process-driven” inspection and monitoring, the head of the body that represents senior children’s social work managers claimed today.