A care home boss styled herself “Lady Glanister” and bought 15 fur coats, jewellery and champagne after stealing £330,000 from her employer, a court heard.

CHILD abuse by members of the clergy should be subjected to a public inquiry, a campaigner has said.

WHEN children with learning disabilities struggle to communicate and behave in school, there is a Worthing centre which offers help.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is facing accusations that it is downgrading child protection work and “victimising” staff who raise concerns.

Government’s upcoming reforms must take the needs and contributions of unpaid carers into account, says Heléna Herklots

Health and social care services in North Somerset are to be integrated to contain costs and improve efficiency.

Hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled people face cuts to their support and assistance this year as councils struggle to find new savings of £1bn from social-care budgets, an investigation by The Independent has established.

In many ways, this is perhaps the worst possible time to be a director of adult social care. For one thing, councils are having to bear the brunt of the government’s spending cuts.

There will be no “pot of gold” to answer the prayers of councils struggling to look after the elderly, according to social care chiefs.

With a record 40,000 people taking the apprenticeship route into adult social care last year, it’s now a serious career path option