Social services admit errors in Redditch suitcase body caseSocial services admit errors in Redditch suitcase body case

Social workers in nine town halls were today judged to be incapable of safely looking after the children in their charge safe.

Social services managers in Birmingham are in no doubt about the size of public backlash against plans to close three day centres used by more than 140 adults with learning disabilities.

When the only response to repeated failure is a call to try harder and do better, you know there’s something badly awry with the premise. Einstein was right: insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The chief inspector of prisons has told Oakington detention centre it must improve its care of children after a sharp rise in the number of under-18 detainees.

A Social Services chief who played a key role in the forcible adoption of three children is married to a convicted terrorist with a history of drink and drug abuse.

A relative of Baby P, who died after sustained abuse, was known by police and social services to be involved in a suspected paedophile ring, it emerged this weekend.

Six-year-old Molly Southern and her mother, Debbie, need all the help they can get. Molly is terminally ill: severely brain-damaged, epileptic and physically disabled, and she rarely sleeps at night.

Councils are still facing significant problems in attracting enough social workers for their children’s services functions, a new study has found.

The leadership, supervision and training that social workers receive are to be reviewed in the wake of the Baby P case, ministers are to announce.