Stoke-on-Trent City Council paid the former director of children’s services Dr Sharon Menghini just short of £350,000 in 2011/12, it has been revealed.

As the Children’s Society publishes a critical report of the UK Border Agency’s practices when dealing with asylum seeking children, BASW has condemned the lack of legal advice, advocacy and specific supportive services for asylum seeking children as “diabolical”.

Former care services minister says department is delaying urgent decision on how to fund elderly and disabled care

A critical Ofsted report about Somerset County Council’s care of vulnerable children has resulted in a £1.4 million investment in social care in the county.

The new Chairman of Torbay’s Children’s Improvement Board is now taking a leading role in overseeing the improvement of services for children in the Bay.

The challenge the UK faces with dementia is one of the biggest issues in healthcare. It’s a problem that is only going to grow: the number of people diagnosed and living with dementia is expected to double to nearly 1.4m in the next 30 years. By Professor Alistair Burns

Police were left shocked and disgusted when officers discovered three young children tucked away in a Peterborough house living in filth and neglected by their mother.

Elderly people moved from NHS treatment to care services at home are often kept out from decisions which affect them, a major new study reported today.

Of the UK’s biggest care providers, Bupa Care Homes, has called upon the newly appointed Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to focus on social care funding as his key challenge, after a recent report estimated the total funding shortfall in England to stand at a staggering £892m.

Changes designed to reduce the budget of adult social care in Lincolnshire have ended up costing the county council more.