Telford and Wrekin Council has been fined more than £70,000 for two data protection breaches which revealed information about vulnerable children.

Vulnerable young people should no longer be sent across England to Rochdale’s privately-run children’s homes because their safety cannot be guaranteed, the leader of the council said last night.

ANN Leach and Joanne Robinson were last week found guilty of ill-treating two severely disabled residents at a Bolton Council-run care home.

Interview: Mike Parson, chief executive of Barchester Healthcare, talks about how to get a fair price for care in the face of ever-increasing demand for better services.

An evening access course for people wanting to train as a health or social care professional has been axed in Norfolk.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the second biggest nursery group in the UK, has acquired all of Casterbridge Nurseries’ 27 settings, in what is the largest deal that the UK nursery sector has seen for some years.

August Equity has completed a buy-in management buy-out of Aspirations Care Group for an undisclosed amount.

Social care agencies missed “numerous” chances to support a teenage mother who was later murdered by her 17-year-old boyfriend, a report has said.

Community mental health teams are having to spend an increasing amount of time helping service users claim benefits, by The Masked AMHP

Care provider Hica Home Care is expanding its domiciliary care operations in Lincolnshire, creating 100 new jobs.