Directors of children’s services have won an important stage in their battle to continue hiring social workers from abroad.

Youth offending team managers are calling for a standard qualification to be introduced for youth offending team (YOT) staff.

SOCIAL Services is set to undergo change after Devon County Council’s executive director for adult and community services David Johnstone handed in his notice.

The four-year-old killed at her home in Merseyside was “known” to social workers, it has emerged. The body of little Chloe Fletcher was found at her home in Wallasey and her 22-year-old mother was being questioned on suspicion murdering the child.

A social worker and three managers have been sacked for failings in the care of Baby P, Haringey Council has said.

A senior social worker abused his position and ruined a woman’s life after he had children with her while he was supposed to be dealing with her case.

The number of skilled jobs in Britain open to migrant workers from outside Europe is to be cut by nearly 300,000 because of sharply rising redundancies and unemployment.

Urgent action is needed to support the growing number of older people needing care, an older people’s charity has warned today.

A mentally ill woman stabbed her two young sons to death just hours after begging her GP to call social services. Jael Mullings, 22, killed two-year-old Romario Mullings-Sewell, and Delayno, who was just four months old, after smoking large quantities of strong “skunk” cannabis.

The university admissions service, Ucas, is considering whether to drop a requirement for students to declare criminal convictions when they apply to university, following a high-profile case exposed by the Guardian.