SOCIAL services could join up with NHS care under new plans for Blackburn with Darwen. The proposals would mean that primary care trust NHS Blackburn with Darwen would be upgraded to a new-style “Care Trust Plus”, taking on the council’s social care responsibilities. It is hoped that the move would save money as well as improving services for patients and their families.

A senior social worker has been struck off the professional register for putting children at risk by failing to allocate 90 cases for investigation.

Police blunders meant a chance to charge Baby P’s mother before his death was missed, a leaked report revealed yesterday.

A CARE worker at Peterhouse School dragged a severely autistic boy across the floor by his head, magistrates heard.

An official ceremony has celebrated the opening of Hillfield House, a new 34-person dementia care home in Burton, Staffordshire.

A government adviser for the elderly has admitted that the system for elderly care is not yet working in a “satisfactory” way.

A SOCIAL worker who virtually emptied a vulnerable woman’s bank account of thousands of pounds has been struck off.

An increasing number of independent care homes for the elderly are being closed because of the recession, council leaders are warning.

The new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, Kim Bromley-Derry, has rejected Lord Laming’s call to consider a national case management system for social workers.

The government has ruled out an inquiry into a Kent-based children’s home that heavily sedated girls who later had children with birth defects.