Health minister, Paul Burstow, has announced the six areas which will pilot a new scheme for adult social care.

Mr Burstow revealed the six councils and trusts ahead of his speech last week at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADSS), which will trial the social care practices, and include Birmingham City Council, Surrey CC and Lambeth LBC. In each of the pilots, groups of frontline social care workers will be given more flexibility to work with the people they support and their carers to improve their lives.