Long-awaited plans for a radical new approach to funding the care of older and disabled people are being held up by a Whitehall row over fears that the proposals will be portrayed as a £10bn raid on benefits claimed by 4 million people.

The council is good at safeguarding vulnerable adults and meeting the needs of older people according to an independent inspection by the health and social care regulator.

Former Association of Directors of Social Services president Roy Taylor is to become the new social care swine flu tsar. The Department of Health said Mr Taylor’s official title would be National Director for Social Care Flu Resilience and that he would take up the part-time post with immediate effect.

A MIDDLESBROUGH social worker has been named among the best in the country. Trainee social worker Sarah Stancer, 28, swept the board in the social care category in the Recruiter magazine’s quest to find the UK’s champion temporary, contract and interim workers.

FRESH calls are being made for a root-and-branch review of York’s social care network in the wake of a “scathing” report which branded many services as not being good enough.

In the second of two reports into social work in Bromley borough, reporter CHARLOTTE McDONALD spoke to Ian Leadbetter, head of social care in the west of the borough.

A multimillion-pound Government computer system swamped in red tape is to be scrapped after experts said it was a danger to vulnerable children, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
 

RESIDENTS of a mental health care home have been removed after reports of verbal and physical assaults among occupants. The eight residents of Priory Gate care home in Stoke have been relocated by local authorities.

A JOB Fair and information day aimed at those considering entering the caring profession will be held at the Guildhall on Friday.

The chief executive of Reading Borough Council has defended figures revealing a drop in the percentage of initial social work assessments completed on time.