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

As the summer holiday stretches family budgets even further, new research shows the cost of raising a child. Summer can be an expensive time of year if you have school

The number of safeguard applications to deprive people of their liberty has risen for the third year running new figures show. Nearly 12,000 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications were

Bupa today made a further step into the care village sector by acquiring Richmond Care Villages. Richmond currently owns and operates five care villages in England which are home to

A CARER who stole £7,000 from an elderly couple with learning difficulties will only have to pay back £500. Lesley Carter, 27, stole money from the bank accounts of Richard

ELEVEN people have today been arrested following an investigation into the death of an 86-year-old woman who died shortly after moving out of a care home in Nottingham. Ivy Atkin,

Police have reopened a 10-year-old investigation into sexual abuse at a former County Durham detention centre, which saw two staff jailed. Church minister Neville Husband, who worked at Medomsley juvenile

The chair of Amnesty International UK has resigned after making a series of jokes about mental health on his Twitter page. Ciarnan Helferty, 26, made the comments over a number