THOUSANDS of council staff will be asked to take a half an hour cut in their working week to help save £2.6m at a cash-strapped Yorkshire authority. It comes after

Changes planned for the provision of support services for children and families could see the county’s children centres developed as early help specialists, with libraries planning a greater role. Northamptonshire

Councils are putting the human rights of elderly residents at risk by excessively cutting the wages of home carers, regulators have said. Home care commissioning practices are currently ‘unsustainable’ and

An under-fire health and social care provider has been told it can continue to provide services for vulnerable people, after council bosses said they were satisfied it had improved. Care

Baby P’s mother is set to walk free from prison within days after serving just six years. Tracey Connelly was jailed indefinitely with a minimum of five years in May

In the last year there has been a 28.4 per cent increase in alerts made to councils about abuse to older people, fuelling worries about abuse in the UK. The

Councils are abusing elderly people’s human rights by forcing down the price they pay agencies to provide care in their homes, the UK’s official equalities watchdog has warned. In a

The Isle of Wight Council’s social care director will leave the authority at the end of the month. Ian Anderson, strategic director for community wellbeing and social care, will not

A new nationwide doorstep crime initiative has been launched after a successful pilot in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire’s Operation REPEAT trains professionals and carers of elderly people what to look for and

Relatives of frail and elderly residents of a Cheltenham nursing home have been left shocked after it was announced the place they expected to live out their days would close.