WIRRAL’S social services has revamped how it deals with some of its most vulnerable users after major failings were discovered during a routine check.

Today, the Department of Health launched a new programme to help provide more choice and higher quality of care and support services across the country.

Majority of GPs admit they do not understand non-residential care services, and local authorities are not clarifying alternatives

Children England has made a series of policy suggestions it hopes will trigger debate about the role of civil society organisations.

Countries are responding in different ways to the increasing number of older people, but should we be looking closer to home? By Bob Hudson

As the number of sufferers from dementia nears a million, and drugs companies fail to find therapies that work, doctors fear services may soon become overwhelmed

The Department of Health has announced the full ministerial portfolios for its new team of junior ministers.

Social care professionals can influence the development of new quality standards by taking part in Nice’s fellowship programme

Imprisonment separates around 17,000 children from their mothers every year – The second part of our week-long investigation counts the cost: in human suffering, and in terms of damage to the next generation

The number of children taken into the care of social services in Leeds has rocketed since the Baby P scandal, the YEP can reveal.