The Care Quality Commission (CQC) chair Dame Jo Williams has said that she saw no prospect of the commission’s ‘excellence award’ scheme going ahead after it had received a “universal thumbs down” by provider bodies.

Housing and social care charity MHA has taken over the leases for 18 former Southern Cross care homes, while Mencap has taken over seven.

SUFFOLK has become the first county in the country to put social workers in the driving seat when it comes to delivering services to adults with sensory impairments through a newly formed local company, Sensing Change.

HARINGEY Council has reversed a decision to close some of its day centres for older people in a victory for campaigners.

The risk of further tragedies like the Baby P case and the murder of two French students in New Cross will be heightened because of government spending cuts, a London academic said today.

Two staff members at a West Sussex care home have been questioned by police about the mistreatment of residents.