A former care home boss who mistreated two elderly patients is due to be sentenced today. Howard Griffiths, 53, “shoved and pushed” an 85-year-old man with senile dementia while he was night manager at a nursing home, a trial heard.

ADSS Cymru last month announced its priorities for the next two years at last month’s national social services conference.

SWANSEA Council has boosted payments to foster carers to ensure rising numbers of children who come into care are found stable, nurturing and caring family environments.

A COUNCIL has been accused of Big Brother spying after investigators followed staff to work in their cars. Care workers said they were left in fear after being monitored as they drove to visit elderly patients.

SWANSEA’S beleaguered child and family services department could phase out agency social workers by the end of the year.

GWENT councils spent more than £8 million on temporary agency staff in the last financial year, we can reveal today.

WELSH police have welcomed the introduction of new powers which will allow parents to check whether people coming into contact with their children have a history as sex offenders.

A council failed to investigate serious concerns of child abuse, a damning report today reveals. The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has made a finding of serious maladministration against Merthyr Tydfil Council in relation to two children, named as B and C.

A MILLIONAIRE businessman has called for child carers to be given more support in the face of severe public sector spending cuts.

The social work regulator in Wales is to reflect on its future role following the surprise announcement earlier this week that the General Social Care Council (GSCC) in England is to be abolished.