People who care for loved ones with dementia are set to benefit from a further eight specialist nurses this year.
 

A DERELICT care home is being demolished to make way for a new 60-bed facility in Appleton. Work has started to pull down Chestnut House and the new care home and day centre will open by March 2010, providing 75 jobs in the area.

Tens of thousands of people with autism have been repeatedly let down by the social care and health system while Labour has been in power, a minister has admitted.

Hilton Dawson, a former MP, is to head the organisation representing Britain’s social workers. Dawson, who chairs the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, will take the helm at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) in April.

Over three quarters of British adults rate social care as importantly as the NHS, a survey has revealed.

The former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Rev Richard Holloway, has come to the defence of social workers, saying the profession has become modern Britain’s scapegoat for society’s ills.

Foster carers have been put at risk by not being told that the babies they are looking after could be HIV positive.

The leader of Surrey County Council has called for a fairer system of social care entitlement. Councillor Nick Skellett said the present system of charging for social care was unfair because it penalised those who had saved for their old age.

The General Social Care Council wants to enforce a code of conduct for employers of social workers.

Mums, academics, social workers, students and unionists have slammed plans to axe an important University of Reading department.