NEARLY 400 care workers transferring to a new boss have been told their jobs will be protected. Neath Port Talbot Council has agreed a 25-year contract that will see Gwalia taking over its residential and respite care, and its supported housing.

All 22 councils in Wales have blasted Welsh government plans to reduce the number of local safeguarding children boards to six.

A children’s charity has described a big rise in the number of children being placed on the child protection register as “deeply worrying”.

Child protection agencies in Pembrokeshire have not always worked effectively, and improvements are needed, according to a report.

A breakdown in communication between healthcare and prison staff led to a paranoid schizophrenic being released from a secure hospital without any support, a report has found.

A FORMER social care worker has been cleared of swearing at a teenager and locking him in a cupboard.

Fewer than half the social services workers in Ceredigion can speak Welsh, according to new figures.

A probe has been launched into revelations that Cardiff council social workers fear a child could die because of staff shortages and high caseloads.

A FORMER social care worker denies locking a teenager in a cupboard but admits threatening to break his legs.

The Welsh government is being urged to introduce legislation to force public authorities to investigate allegations or suspicions of abuse of the elderly.