Sharon Shoesmith, who was director of children’s services at Haringey Council when Baby P was killed, has agreed on the terms of her payout with her former employers The former

Two male staff members at the Yarl’s Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire have been sacked for having sex with a female detainee. A 23-year-old Roma woman reported having sex with

Oxfam is set to cut 125 posts in the UK and close several of its regional offices to make it more “efficient”, the charity has said. Its headquarters in Oxford

More needs to be done to make people understand that social care in later life is not free, the former care minister has said. Paul Burstow said there is a

A lack of council funding is forcing home care providers for the elderly to find ways to avoid paying staff minimum wages, the head of the Low Pay Commission has

Some 340,000 elderly and disabled people will receive no assistance towards care costs, experts warn Hundreds of thousands of frail elderly and disabled people who need help with basic tasks

The Department of Health has responded to disability charity Leonard Cheshire’s campaign to end 15 minute home care visits. In response to Leonard Cheshire’s campaign, the Department of Health said

Women taking part in a pilot of the government’s benefit cap have been forced to stay with violent partners and even driven to attempt suicide, researchers have found. A report

Bristol City Council did not act quickly enough to rehouse a girl after being informed that her foster carer was suspected of downloading child abuse images, a review has found.

A coroner’s inquest has found 19 elderly patients died amid ‘institutionalised’ abuse and that, in the case of five of them, neglect was a contributing factor in their deaths. Speaking