Social care and health
We’re responsible for providing social care for vulnerable adults and older people across Staffordshire as well as providing support for those who care for them.
Our Children and Families Social Work Teams provide advice, support and social work to families – parents, children and other carers.
- Description
- Staffordshire County Council is prioritising improvements after an Ofsted inspection of children's services found that the service 'required improvement to be good'.
- Date:
- 12 January 2024
- Description
- Thousands of Staffordshire residents have benefited from help, advice and guidance from the county council's dedicated cost-of-living campaign.
- Date:
- 09 January 2024
- Description
- Children and young people in care in Staffordshire are set to benefit from a new creative mentoring programme to run in 2024.
- Date:
- 09 January 2024
- Description
- For James Wilson and wife Juli, it's a new year but it's also a new start as foster carers with Staffordshire County Council.
- Date:
- 05 January 2024
- Description
- Over £5,000 of illegal vapes and cigarettes have been seized by Staffordshire County Council's Trading Standards officers, guided by the trusty nose of Griff the two-year-old specialist tobacco detection dog.
- Date:
- 29 December 2023
- Description
- County council-run family hubs across Staffordshire have sleighs full of presents to give to children they support, thanks to kind donations from local organisations.
- Date:
- 14 December 2023
- Description
- Thousands of children from low-income families will be able to benefit from free food and activities this winter as part of Staffordshire's Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) programme.
- Date:
- 08 December 2023
- Description
- People in Staffordshire are being reminded that during their darkest hours they're not alone this Christmas and New Year.
- Date:
- 05 December 2023