The quality of services provided to people across the health and care sectors in England is beginning to suffer, according to the regulator.

PLYMOUTH City Council has been fined £60,000 for sending a child neglect report containing “highly sensitive personal data” to the wrong person.

Essex CC has today awarded the country’s first-ever social impact bond in children’s services to protect vulnerable adolescents at risk of going to jail.

Loneliness, social isolation and its ‘harmful effects’ in older people, will be tackled by identifying the areas where it is most prevalent, health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has announced.

SOCIAL services in Stockton have come under fire for “serious failures” after a dad was allowed to repeatedly harm his children.

An awards ceremony is being held on 28 November to recognise the achievements of 40 care homes in providing quality end-of-life care.

Today has seen England’s care regulator publish its ‘State of Care’ report, an in-depth study into the reasons why some care services are falling short of standards.

The deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council has stepped down after it emerged he watched pornography on a work computer.

Study describes range of sexual crimes perpetrated mainly against girls by male teenage gang members and older men

Responding to the publication of the findings of a nationwide Inquiry by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, BASW has called on society to stop tolerating the promotion of sexualised images of children for commercial profit.