Social workers considered allowing an 11-year-old girl at the centre of a fostering dispute to be deported, a report has concluded. There were several failings in the handling of the
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Fewer than half of local authorities in England have an approved designated facility for care home residents in hospital to be discharged into, figures show. Out of 151 local authorities,
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Experiences of community mental health services are consistently poor and the coronavirus pandemic will prompt a rise in people seeking help at crisis point, the care regulator has warned. People
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A care group has questioned the fairness of a watchdog’s inspections approach during the coronavirus pandemic after it emerged local authority homes are far less likely to be inspected than
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A care home in Surrey has been fined more than £100,000 after a 92-year old woman was assaulted by another resident. Sunrise Operations Esher, the company that runs the home
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The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the “fragile” social care sector even closer to the edge, the head of the care regulator has warned. Covid-19 exposed and exacerbated problems in social
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For the services we regulate – as for the rest of the world – the past year is divided into two parts. Pre-COVID, care was generally good, but with little
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An independent body should be created to oversee and regulate the social care market to prevent “unfair outcomes”, according to a think tank. New regulations are needed to ensure older
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A “disproportionately low” number of complaints about independent care providers is preventing the sector from learning and improving, the social care ombudsman has warned. The Local Government and Social Care
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A new report, published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), shows that more people than ever before work in Scotland’s social services. There are some 206,400 people in the
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