Services have been cut or frozen by two-thirds of local councils since coalition came to power, according to ComRes study

Report warns that care sector risks slipping back into institutional culture typified by Victorian asylum system

Recent successes in reducing crime and reoffending rates across England and Wales could be jeopardised by cuts to the youth justice service and by the marginalisation of the social work role, MPs have been warned.

Early years professionals are braced for an imminent government announcement on changes to child and staff ratios in childcare settings.

Survey reveals 88% of newly qualified social workers find it difficult to fit in training, while 63% feel they don’t get enough supervision in their first year in the job

The income of the Alzheimer’s Society increased by £9.4m to £71m in the year to March 2012, compared with the previous year, according to its annual accounts, published last week.

RESIDENTS can remain at a Southend care home after it was saved from closure. Jewish Care has agreed to sell Raymond House to a family who currently operate two care homes in the town.

A SOCIAL care manager at Cornwall Council used razor blades to carry out horrific sex attacks. Richard Mason, 47, of Daniel Gardens, Truro, drank the blood of his victims in the sadistic attacks.

A VOLUNTARY care home worker has been jailed for more than two years after he got embroiled in using and dealing cocaine. Jamie Paul Catchpole, 27, did charity work helping people with Alzheimer’s at a care home, but he also “fell under the spell of drugs”.

But Family Foundation Giving Trends, co-written by Cathy Pharoah of the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy, reveals an overall increase if the largest foundation, the Wellcome Trust, is excluded.