A new assistant director for social care in Adult and Local Services has been appointed by Cumbria County Council.

The Department of Health has unveiled a children and young people’s health forum to be charged with developing a child health strategy over the next three months.

A decision on plans to privatise day care services used by about a thousand disabled and elderly people in Lincolnshire has been postponed.

Hospitals should check every elderly patient for signs of neglect on admission, health ministers will be told on Friday.

The relatives of people living in a residential home in Warrington have said they are concerned it may close as part of council cuts.

Cumbria County Council has defended its decision to axe funding for community alarm systems provided by social landlords such as Riverside in Carlisle.

The biggest intrusion by the state into family life is the removal of a child from its birth parents. So it is absolutely right that the courts should make the final decision, whether it is for a temporary or a permanent arrangement.

A social care organisation failed to take adequate action to protect service staff from a potentially aggressive client with learning disabilities, despite staff being exposed to a number of violent incidents involving the individual over a 21-month period.

Members of the Health Select Committee have raised grave concerns over the future of social care in the UK.

Foster carers should be given an annual fee with the most experienced being paid a formal salary, a think-tank has claimed.