NSPCC says local authorities will look to make savings despite rising demand for child protection services

Good placements for social work students can be hard to find. The General Social Care Council’s head of social work education offers a solution

Health secretary says that unions should consider the ‘unprecedented offer’ that been put on table by the government

LOCAL authorities have been warned to plan for the worst case scenario amid fears that the UK’s biggest independent health care firm – which runs more than 70 North-East care homes – faces financial collapse.

THE family of an 84-year-old dementia sufferer – who was punched and slapped by an angry care home worker after she lost her temper – say justice has been done.

Fresh allegations have been made about a nursing home where two careworkers were sacked for posting pictures of a resident online.

THE leader of the Isle of Wight Council has rejected calls for him to stand down after the authority’s social care cuts were branded unlawful.

One in four child runaways has found themselves in a dangerous or harmful situation, research from The Children’s Society has revealed.

A generation of elderly people face a “tragedy” of worsening care after the number of nursing home companies collapsing through lack of funds doubled in a year, research has found.

Southern Cross joined by more than 70 smaller companies as care crisis widens