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Cocaine and heroin addicts on a government treatment programme are being given extra drugs as a reward for good behaviour, it was reported today.

Children’s care home workers in Tamworth are celebrating this week, after beating a tough national target.

A Hospital nurse who repeatedly swore in front of colleagues and put cancer patients in danger by making basic drug errors has been struck off.

A jury will decide tomorrow whether a widow left in her bed during the evacuation of a blazing care home died as the result of an accident.

In a statement following the coroner’s verdict, Plymouth City Council, which runs social services in Plymouth, said: “The coroner found that Perrin died from bronchial pneumonia, with low body weight and dehydration as contributing factors, as a result of neglect by his mother and her partner and that this finding did not reflect upon the efforts of the agencies working with the family.”

A disgraced mental health trust is facing legal action over allegations that it has mis-spent patients’ money.

The new director of social care for Lichfield and Burntwood is hoping as many people as possible will attend a series of discussion meetings into future provision, the first of which take place today.

Tributes have been paid to a tireless supporter of the Dorothy House hospice charity who helped raise £500,000 over more than 20 years.

A refuge for women fleeing domestic violence is to change hands for the first time in more than 30 years.

One of his most famous works told the story of a poverty-stricken family battling against homelessness. Now Ken Loach will be the special guest at a reception for homeless people in Bath.