Social care services in Wales have shown consistent improvement over the past ten years, but this could turn to decline as the sector faces new problems.

A RHYL couple who kept their two children in “unimaginable squalor” have received prison sentences.

AN organisation has been launched to protect and promote the interests of children in care in Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys.

SYSTEMS to ensure social services departments learn the lessons of child protection failures are in urgent need of reform, a major report is expected to warn today.

STAFF and union leaders have clashed with council officers over the handling of proposed closure for a Swansea care facility.

OUT-OF-CONTROL children in Burry Port have been removed from their families by police and put into the care of social services.

A judge has revealed why he upheld the BBC’s right to secretly film in a care home for the elderly. The care home’s owner, BKM Ltd, had sought to block the broadcast of a programme entitled “Who Cares in Wales?” as part of the BBC Wales Week in Week Out series.

RELATIVES of the 12 residents housed at Bryneithin Residential Care Home are set to launch a legal challenge, after the Vale Council confirmed the Dinas Powys home will close.

NO child in care was ever made to spend the night at a motorway service station, according to staff.

UNISON bosses have laid down a challenge to council chiefs to openly debate their plans for the possible closure of a Swansea care facility. They have made the call in the wake of a heated meeting over Earlsmoor in Brynmill.