A care home is being shut down after continually failing to meet the needs of its residents. Littleport Grange nursing and residential home, in Littleport, was issued with a formal warning by health and social care watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February.

People with learning disabilities are becoming isolated because of cuts to support and day services in England, says a joint report by 14 charities.

Around 400 sexual offences against children are reported to police each week but less than one in 10 result in a conviction, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

More than a third of all sex crimes are committed against children, figures have shown. A child was sexually attacked every 20 minutes last year, with more than 60 child sex offences reported to police every day.

Lack of trust between court officials and social workers, and excessive red tape are among the main causes of delay in adoption cases, according to Ofsted.

BASW has restated its reservations about the dangers of integration as the UK’s largest merger of Local Authority and NHS care services prepares to go live.

I have been grappling with the potential consequences of last month’s Budget, and of the Health and Social Care Bill, for children who are vulnerable. Children’s success or failure relies on how well adults – those close to the child and those working in services for them – bring up, educate and care for them. By Maggie Atkinson

People arrested in Brighton on suspicion of a range of offences are to be tested for drugs at the city’s custody centre.

Secure training centres will only achieve an “adequate” rating if restraint is used as a last resort to protect young people from serious harm, under plans for a joint inspection regime between Ofsted and the prisons inspectorate.

A WOMAN says she feels isolated after a reassessment of her health has left her unable to attend an adult day centre.