Be wary of schemes that aim to avoid you having to sell your home to fund health care, experts are warning. Homeowners are being warned to tread carefully before signing

Zero-hours contracts with unpaid travel time means up to 220,000 care workers get less than the minimum wage Samantha Nelson doesn’t dawdle. She’s up at 5.30 every morning and quickly

Hampshire County Council is to take over the running of the Isle of Wight’s children’s services for five years. Ofsted ranked the island’s child protection services “inadequate” in November, while

Vulnerable children are being put at risk by a chronic shortage of experienced social workers, according to research published today. The supply of social workers will not equal demand until

A UNION has claimed the council is struggling to keep social workers after it was revealed there was almost a 50% increase in the amount of agency staff employed in

The latest ‘Green Paper’ from ResPublica, Putting People into Personalisation: Relational approaches to social care and housing, argues that social care needs a radical shake up to ensure genuine choice

The UK’s 6.5m unpaid carers play a vital role, yet too often their contribution is ignored or misunderstood, by Sharon Allen Unpaid carers are vitally important partners in supporting people

Recruitment will start next month for 20 staff at a new £750,000 specialist care home being built on the site of an old Bradford pub. West Yorkshire-based Horizon Healthcare Homes

Two care assistants who abused severely disabled patients in South Yorkshire will be sentenced. James Hinds and Susan Murphy humiliated and assaulted vulnerable adults at a mental health unit in