SCORES of new jobs are set to be created after a national care company announced plans to expand.

A CARE home manager has been jailed for five years after trying to cheat two elderly residents out of £400,000.

Social workers should be given a more integral role in supporting teams of workers who assist with natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

Macmillan Cancer Support says cancer mortality rates for older people improving more slowly than for younger patients

A major Cumbrian charity could lose up to a third of its staff as it battles to cope with what bosses say are “savage” cuts in funding.

More than 70 per cent of kinship carers have labelled their local council’s efforts to support them as poor or very poor.

Social Work Day at the United Nations is part of a global campaign to reposition the profession, say David Jones and Rory Truell

The coalition government says it is in favour of decentralised services and against top-down management. So why is it introducing heavily prescriptive targets in the field of social care? by Claudia Wood.

Well-managed integrated care can reduce hospital admissions for elderly patients by at least a fifth, new research suggests.

Funding for research into dementia is to be more than doubled by 2015 in a bid to make Britain a world leader in the field, David Cameron has announced.