Social workers in Suffolk are to have their workloads slashed, thanks to 50 more staff being recruited in the light of the case of Baby P.

Grow your own initiatives, where local authorities and the independent sector support their employees, or potential employees, to qualify as social workers are becoming more popular.

If we want to attract and keep people to work as social workers, we need to give them respect for what they do, says Alan Warner.

An inquiry will be launched into children’s services at Doncaster Council, the BBC has learned. It comes after serious case reviews were ordered into the deaths of seven children in the area.

The former head of children’s services at the centre of the Baby P case has lost an appeal against her dismissal.

Serious failings in child protection could “not have guaranteed” the safety of a baby who was severely brain damaged, a critical independent report into Kingston social services concluded.

Too much regulation, too much paperwork, too little support. Richard Kemp argues that social workers must be allowed to get on with the job in a commonsense fashion if we are to limit the number of tragedies like that of Baby P

The former director of children’s services at Haringey Council, who was sacked following an investigation into the Baby P case, has appealed against her dismissal.

A £3MILLION contract to care for elderly and disabled people has been cancelled after a sudden increase in missed home visits.

ST HELENS council has avoided having to pick up the bill for “possibly the most expensive care package in the country”, after a High Court ruling.