A NEW care home has opened near Selby, creating 20 jobs for local people. Businessman Bryan Reader spent £300,000 on refurbishing his Temple Manor home, in Temple Hirst, after visiting his mother in another care home.

Councils across England could be forced to spend hundreds of millions of pounds extra on care for the elderly after a landmark High Court case.

A HALEWOOD family was repaid £117,000 after being wrongly charged care home fees. Evangeline McConnell, 88, was refused NHS funding for care at two Merseyside nursing homes.

Former nurses are being encouraged to re-start their careers by Jersey’s health and social services department.

A hospital service for kidney transplant patients has been suspended because the staff all called in sick.

JUST 12 hours after the announcement that the owners of Fleet Valley Care Home in Gatehouse had gone into administration, it was confirmed that a new owner was already lined up.

Is a model of social work that radically transformed child protection in one borough about to go mainstream?

A former social services boss has warned it could be “impossible” to bring back council care for the elderly and disabled if it is axed.

Nearly 200,000 babies in the UK are at risk of serious harm, according to figures released by the NSPCC as it launched its campaign to highlight the vulnerability of children aged under one.

A CARE home for people with severe learning difficulties is under investigation by health watchdogs and the police. All the residents have been removed from Veilstone Care Home in Buckland Brewer.