Groups in 15 areas of England are to share £5m of Lottery funding to help parents support their children in their early years. The Big Lottery Fund cash will be

Record numbers of care homes have been issued with official warnings after inspectors found “unacceptable” and illegal failings which left the most vulnerable at risk. More than 900 notices have

A social care organisation has been awarded over £140,000 from a new government fund to promote innovation. Shared Lives Plus – which supports isolated or vulnerable adults by housing them

Thousands of elderly people with dementia have been threatened with restraint using new safeguards which are supposed to protect the vulnerable. Figures show that almost 12,000 legal applications were made

Dementia patients and carers in Richmond will be able to receive more support after a care centre received a £760,000 grant from the government. Homelink Day Respite Care Centre, which

A woman has gone missing with her one-year-old son after social services attempted to take the boy into care. Michelle Kelly, 28, should have given Jaden to Essex Social Services

Local government will continue to be restricted unless it allows women to contribute effectively, a senior policy thinker has warned. Female council workers are currently being pigeonholed into what are

A shameful catalogue of failings at a Blackpool care home were today laid bare in a shocking report. Government inspectors visited the Abbeydale Nursing Home, in South Shore, as patients

Vulnerable older people are apparently being billed for their care up to six months late because social services is so far behind on its paperwork. Residents in care homes, sheltered

THE vital work of children’s centres is being overhauled to try to reduce the number of children being taken into care. North Somerset Council wants to provide more support to