The three people convicted of offences in the Baby P case will not have their sentences referred to the court of appeal, the attorney general announced today.

A new £7million mental health unit opened its doors at Ilkeston Community Hospital on Friday, bringing together services previously scattered across Derbyshire into one place.

A SPECIALIST mental health ward in Manchester is to close and its 15 patients moved. Nursing staff at the Cedars Ward, based at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust’s Edale Unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary, were shocked to learn of the imminent closure.

The LGA is the latest local government lobbying organisation to call on the Government to urgently reform the adult social care system.

Individual budgets and the wider personalisation agenda have been around for quite a while now. They have had a mixed journey, and at times they have been hijacked and presented as a panacea for the problems of the wide public services portfolio.

An influential group of MPs and Peers are calling for all staff working in social care to receive dementia training appropriate to their role after a report published today.

In a move to strengthen social work management, the Children’s Workforce Development Council is part funding a national pilot Graduate Recruitment Scheme to help attract high calibre graduates into a career in social work with children and families.

AN inquest will take place in Huddersfield tomorrow into the tragic death of a woman in a care home. The hearing will look into the death of an 87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who died two months after suffering four per cent burns while living at the West Yorkshire care home.

A dying mother has appealed for more time with her children after being banned from seeing them for more than 90 minutes a fortnight.
 

TWO social workers have been arrested amid claims that one of them tried to sell cocaine to cops at a police party. The women – who were employed by Manchester council – are alleged to have openly used cocaine in front of officers.