Institutions facing investigation in the independent abuse inquiry are set to be identified. Justice Lowell Goddard, who is leading the probe, will make a statement on its progress later. It
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The new Universal Credit system will mean a less generous benefit entitlement for working families, a respected economic think tank has said. An estimated 2.6 million working families can be
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Powerful “skunk weed” cannabis causes significant damage to vital nerve fibres linking the two halves of the brain, a study has found. The damage occurs in the corpus callosum, the
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A local authority has accepted a family judge’s criticism that it should have issued care proceedings involving the siblings of Poppi Worthington at an earlier stage. A 2014 fact-finding judgment
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Council social services staff unlawfully moved a vulnerable woman from her home and placed her in a care facility, a senior judge has said. Sir James Munby said the woman,
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The social care sector has reacted to George Osborne’s Autumn Statement and Spending Review. Here is our round-up from key commentators. ADASS President Ray James said: “Although the Treasury’s recognition
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A Government failure to exempt individual family carers in receipt of carer’s allowance from the benefit cap amounts to “objectively unjustifiable indirect discrimination” and is not lawful, a High Court
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Councils will be able to add 2% to council tax bills in a bid to provide up to £2 billion for social care, the Chancellor has confirmed. George Osborne faced
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The prevalence of child sexual abuse in England has been vastly underestimated after a major new study suggested only one in eight victims come to the attention of authorities. Around
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Social workers should have acted sooner to protect two children whose mother had mental health difficulties, a family court judge has said. Judge Lesley Newton said the children – now
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