Five disabled people have lost their High Court challenge over the government’s decision to abolish the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Their lawyers had asked the court to declare “unlawful” the
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As the Rochdale horror revealed, we need to overhaul how we care for our most troubled children, By Edward Timpson Next month will mark the first anniversary of the sentencing
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Campaigners against the closure of care homes in Leeds will attend a public meeting tonight. Leeds City Council want to close care homes including Primrose Hill to help make fifty
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As Alan Milburn and Baroness Shephard, chairman and deputy chairman of a new Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission call on Government to do more to meet the global 2020 target on child poverty, Nushra Mansuri has described the latest statistics on the number of children defined as being impoverished “a sorry state of affairs for one of the richest economies in the world”.
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COUNCIL bosses have hailed the success of a new service for people needing out-of-hours social care.
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Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says Labour’s plans to integrate health and social care are vital to the future of the NHS, especially in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal.
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AN Oldham firm providing care in patients’ homes has closed following its loss of a council contract over “serious concerns”.
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Rates of digital exclusion in social care are higher than in the general population, by Emma Solomon
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BASW has described Ofsted’s decision to inspect local authority child protection and services for children who are looked after under a single, combined framework as “puzzling”, and urges the inspectorate to reveal its evidence base.
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Older people in poor health in England are almost three times more likely to feel lonely than those in excellent health, a study suggests.
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