Social care providers are being encouraged to show their commitment to providing excellent care and support for people with dementia by signing the Dementia Pledge.

AN overhaul of Bournemouth’s adult social care department will save £565,000 and should ensure residents receive an improved service.

Thousands of people with learning difficulties face losing daycare support if categorised as having moderate needs

Two carers at a residential home in Buckinghamshire have denied neglect. Henrietta Offae, 41, and Titlayo Ajala, 56, were each charged with 19 counts of wilfully neglecting a person without capacity.

A FORMER county social worker accused of keeping poor records and failing to maintain contact with mental health patients has been suspended.

Community sentences in England and Wales are to be made more “female friendly” in an effort to keep women out of prison.

Report by Ofsted and Quality Care Commission reveals that 30% of adults with mental health problems have children

Thousands of older people are being unnecessarily socially excluded, a WRVS report warns today as 342,000 over 75 year olds said they feel trapped in their own home through lack of suitable transport.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt directly contradicts Downing Street over the cost of treating European patients on the NHS

“There’s no place for disabled people in the Chancellor’s aspiration nation”, Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of disability charity Scope said in response to Chancellor George Osborne’s 2013 budget.