The borough’s new consumer champion for health and social care launched on Wednesday and now begins the process of recruiting board members. The launch, at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, saw 150

If people became more involved with care homes it would benefit residents and provide an extra quality check, by Lord Michael Bichard Cookery classes, art installations, coffee mornings. On Friday,

A BUSINESSMAN has applied to open a new children’s home in Littleover but 12 people have objected. Meaksh Mehan, who runs Uma Fashions, in Normanton Road, has applied to Derby

Too many mentally ill people are being held in police cells, say four watchdog bodies in England and Wales. A report from the four bodies covering police, prisons and care

NEW figures reveal there has been a rise in the number of safeguarding referrals for vulnerable adults claiming to have been abused. Hartlepool Borough Council has produced the annual figures

A union has called for the “myth” that the private sector can run the public services “more effectively” to be “exploded”. It comes in the wake of residents being removed

The King’s Fund has set up a commission to consider the future of health and social care. Chaired by economist Kate Barker, a former member of the Bank of England’s

Bupa has announced that Oakhurst Grange Nursing Home is to close. Staff at the home in Goffs Park Road, Southgate, will work with the local adult social services and NHS

Chief executive insists the shortfall has been tackled after a report revealed more than 60 per cent of positions in its social services department were empty in the autumn Vulnerable

The College of Social Work has published a Code of Ethics for its members that sets out the principles that social workers in England are expected to put into practice.