It’s a remote territory 8,000 miles away from mainland UK, but we could learn from the island’s model for integrating health and social care, reports Gill Hitchcock

Health and social care agencies in Essex are joining forces to prevent older people having to go into hospital

The first national strategy to deal with missing children and adults in England and Wales was launched by the Home Office yesterday.

A judge has criticised social services at a district council for a “grave failure” which resulted in a newborn baby suffering multiple injuries at the hands of her inadequate parents, a court heard.

A council and NHS trust have been criticised after they were found to have wrongly kept a woman from seeing her dying mother.

Three-quarters of families with disabled children suffer from mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety and breakdown, according to new research.

Work on checking standards in English care home fell “significantly” after a new watchdog was introduced, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned in a report published today (Friday).

The author of a government-commissioned report on the future of the care system has urged ministers to find the “guts” to get on and implement it.

Far from disregarding the expertise of social care professionals, Ofsted has it locked into its current programme of inspection and won the respect of children’s services staff, writes Jon Goldup

Care home entrepreneur Phil Burgan has warned of a crisis in the elderly care market as the cost of looking after old people becomes unsustainable.