The Integrated Children’s System (ICS) has failed to reduce social workers’ working hours, according to a report from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

A private company running a Birmingham health centre has employed staff without running background checks. Care UK took control of the £3 million Greet Health Centre in Springfield when it opened last month.

Patients suffering from terminal conditions such as cancer cannot always die at home surrounded by family and friends because they are hindered by the NHS and social care system, a report by MPs said.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today (Wednesday) publishes a report showing systemic failings in the healthcare provided by NHS trusts to Baby Peter.

The claim by children’s secretary Ed Balls that keeping children safe is everyone’s responsibility is absolutely right. Everyone, everywhere, shares this responsibility – on the streets, in schools, at leisure centres and on housing estates.

A Bradford care home for people with learning disabilities is being investigated over what a senior councillor has described as three “unexpected” deaths.

Retirement among foster carers is adding to the crisis in the social care system, a charity has warned. Figures released by the Fostering Network found 65% of foster carers were aged 50 or over and only 6% of the country’s 72,000 foster carers are in their 30s.
 

A FORMER care worker has been warned he could go to jail after admitting sexually abusing a vulnerable Plymouth adult in his care. John Kenure, aged 67, had been due to face a three-day trial at Plymouth Crown Court.

A former care home worker has admitted stealing almost £10,000 from a resident’s bank account. Anne Morris, 22, of Goole, East Yorkshire, took the man’s bank card from his room in the St John’s Rest Home at Melrose in the Borders.

In an ideal world, there would be no children living away from the security and love of a family. This is far from an ideal world, however, and 4,000 children in England are waiting for homes. As we often hear, there are ­endless couples wanting to adopt.