One council has adapted family group conferencing to an adult protection context to help social workers deliver good outcomes in cases where individuals choose to remain in harmful situations - and ...

Advice note for directors raises concerns about practitioners' legal knowledge on and whether insufficient training resource has gone into developing social work skills. Adults' services directors ...

People were potentially put at risk by a lack of effective safeguarding systems in adult social care at York Council, according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Inspectors found the service ...

My Home Life England, part of City St George's, University of London, has today launched a major new report, "Improved ...

Hundreds of new safeguarding concerns were investigated in adult social care in Swindon last year, figures show. When an adult in care is judged to be at risk of abuse or neglect, local authorities ...

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has rated Westmorland and Furness Council as requires improvement, in how well they are meeting their responsibilities to ensure people have access to adult social ...

Bolton Council has been praised by the Care Quality Commission after its adult social care services were rated 'good' for ...