IMPROVING customer service, collaborating with charities and working with ethnic groups to promote the safeguarding of children are among the strengths of Newport’s social services department, according to an inspection report.

Cardiff Council’s under-fire social services departments have been hit by fresh criticism, this time by Wales’ care services watchdog.

POLICE, health workers and social services in Gwent will work closer together to tackle forced marriage and honour-based violence.

NEATH Port Talbot’s children’s services is facing problems of biblical proportions, scrutiny board members have warned.

A lack of clarity and accountability means a Welsh council has made “inconsistent” decisions, a critical report has said. In a special inspection report, the Auditor General for Wales criticised Pembrokeshire council for “too much informality” which had weakened accountability within the authority.

More power and control will be given to thousands of people receiving care, the Welsh Government said today as it unveiled its Social Services Bill.

Charity says research suggests children at risk of neglect because social workers feel ‘powerless’ to intervene

EVERY social care worker in Flintshire will be given new guidance as part of a major campaign to ensure the people they look after are treated with the dignity they deserve.

BASW Cymru has highlighted the pressures facing social workers in Wales and called for a change in culture among employers to offer more scope for social workers to raise concerns about resource constraints impacting on practice.

SOCIAL services in Blaenau Gwent will freeze recruitment and scale back repairs on residential and day care centres to balance its stretched budget.