Nursing assistants and childcare workers are typically paid less than those in comparable occupations, research has found, by Professor Elizabeth West

BASW has responded to the appointment of Edward Timpson MP as new children’s minister and Norman Lamb MP as care services minister by urging them to learn the lessons their predecessors refused to heed by listening to the expertise BASW offers as “the authentic organised voice for the profession”.

The UK government’s ‘work capability assessment’ for sick and disabled people has been revealed to be blatantly unfair, and decisions are frequently overturned on appeal.

People in Somerset who are aged over 60 and have experienced domestic violence are being invited to take part in a new study.

Private care homes which fail to meet satisfactory standards will be named and shamed by a local authority under pioneering moves to improve social care services.

REFERRALS to social services of youngsters at risk of sexual abuse have rocketed in Runcorn and Widnes due to young people being exposed to perverts who look at indecent images of children.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has released a consultation paper on its strategy for 2013-2016 asking for views on its plans for the next three years.

An innovative project has the potential to grow into a replacement for existing services for older people, by Hilary Cottam

Save the Children is seeking to raise £500,000 to help children from low-paid working families, who it says are going without hot meals and winter clothes.

Children’s minister Tim Loughton has been axed from his children’s minister post in the cabinet reshuffle