Radical plans to transform the way social services are delivered in Wales will only work if social workers are freed from a ‘tick box mentality’ and allowed to focus on people, BASW Cymru said.

A CARE business will create 100 new jobs this year. Just four weeks into 2013, Colwyn Bay-based Abacare has promised to bring more work to the sector in North Wales.

The Welsh government is publishing legislation which will see carers getting the same legal rights to support as the people they look after.

AN Ammanford pensioner has spoken out against Carmarthenshire county council’s plans to introduce charges for non-residential social services for adults which are currently free.

Legislation will see the creation of a national adoption service, national assessment eligibility criteria and give carers equal legal rights to those they look after

Cardiff council has unveiled proposals for what it says will be “the most radical step change” in social care in Wales for a generation.

A FORMER social services chief of Monmouthshire council has become a trustee of an independent Christian charity.

Wrexham-based Pendine Park has become one of only a handful of social care companies across the UK to receive the coveted Investors in People Gold Award.

Foster children in Wales are still being failed by the system – despite improvements in the last decade, a charity is warning.

An £82m contingency fund to help struggling health boards with their finances has been announced by Health Minster Lesley Griffiths.