The excellent Janet Daley on the Telegraph comment section eloquently questions whether more government bureaucracy will make a difference to social services. We are to have yet another "shake-up" of the social services. Because, after all, having allowed one child to be tortured to death and another to be held hostage by her own mother, the social services are clearly in need of an intervention f...

John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety has welcomed reforms to streamline health and social care services including a new Health and Social Care Board, the Public Health Agency, the Business Services Organisation and the Patient Client Council .

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and Northgate Public Services have signed a new three-year innovation partnership aimed at promoting and encouraging information exchange between the public and private sectors to deliver positive social care outcomes.

The European Commission sees no need for major changes to EU legislation affecting social services, despite pressure from politicians and social NGOs who claim that current rules cause problems for public authorities and service providers.

John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety has congratulated the Minister for Health Social Services and Public Safety, Michael McGimpsey, as the Health and Social Care (Reform) Bill reached its final stage in the Assembly today. Mr. McCallister believes that the Bill is the most significant piece of legislation to pass through the Assembl...

Following on from the Baby P case and countless other incidents comes this latest disaster from the Social Services. A teenage sex offender who was placed by social services with a foster family went on to rape their two-year-old son and sexually assault their nine-year-old daughter. The family weren't informed by Social Services that the boy had a history of abusing young children. There has...

Looks like another stunning victory for social services. As ever, I say that if the problem was merely that social workers were untrained/over-worked/retarded or whatever, these horrors stories would occur pretty much at random. Ditto, with cases of social workers persecuting the innocent. On the contrary, the figures only tilt one way. Social workers have totally assimilated the cultural Marxist ...

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care - Provisional information on the money spent on social care by Councils with Social Services Responsibilities including different types of provision, different client groups and children`s services

Millions of public sector workers will be allowed to leave their jobs and sell back their services, says Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister

Public services provision in Europe is set to be radically liberalised from bureaucracy but will at the same time come under more scrutiny from the EU executive following two proposals tabled by the European Commission yesterday (20 December). More »