If the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) really have found the social workers who lied on oath in ‘the Hampshire case’, NOT to have committed professional misconduct, should they publish this decision?

Note in box added 18.1.17 We have since learnt that the Professional Standards Authority automatically reviews all serious decisions by the HCPC on fitness to practice. The issue for the Transparency Project is not the decision itself but the lack of transparency...

Bradford Council’s claim that it has decided to cut foster care allowances to the government national minimum level to comply with the law rather than principally to reduce costs

Saturday’s local Telegraph and Argus report, (‘Union hits out at Council plans to cut foster carers allowances’) of Bradford City Council’s plan to reduce the core child element of their foster care allowances to the government minimum level, triggered twitter...