A GROUP which represents council social care departments has moved to reassure residents of Four Seasons care homes that the company is not in financial trouble.

Social services chiefs have called for legislation to halt London councils using Kent as a dumping ground for children in care.

The natural father of Baby P is suing the publishers of a Sunday newspaper for £130,000 damages for printing “one of the gravest libels imaginable”.

Regulation means that a student dismissed from one course cannot start another without the provider being made aware. By David Rowland

THE angry daughter of an Alzheimer’s sufferer is calling for a campaign against plans to close three homes which provide specialist dementia care.

The head of the body regulating health and social care has announced her resignation – as a critical government report into its work is published.

MARGARET Claydon, a 93-year-old dementia sufferer, was awoken by bright lights and a cold flannel roughly scraped across her face, sworn at and assaulted by a care worker in her £3,000-a-month care home.

A PERVERTED foster carer was allowed to systematically sexually abuse young girls in his care – even after the alarm was raised by a five-year old who had been raped.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has reignited the debate on adoption, claiming that local authorities have failed to remove ethnicity as a barrier to matching potential adopters with children.

A team of inspectors is to be sent into hundreds of care homes within to check whether elderly people are being treated with dignity.