A CHILDREN’S home for troubled youngsters is at the centre of an investigation by police and social services into alleged child abuse and staff misconduct.

A social worker who was suspended by the General Social Care Council for failing to report concerns that a child who was later murdered had been locked in a cupboard has won an appeal against the decision.

A FORMER care home manager squandered the savings of elderly dementia sufferers to feed an addiction to online bingo.

A woman who was the subject of an international hunt while wanted in connection with the abuse of a 99-year-old woman at a Bradford care home has been arrested.

A candidate standing for re-election in East Douglas believes the Department of Social Care should be scrapped.

HARROW Council has defended its decision to pull £2.1 million out of the budget for adult social care as “prudent”.

Middle-class doctors were left free to abuse adopted children in a “reign of terror” because social workers were intimidated by their professional status, a review has found.

The government’s vision for supporting families through early interventions is short-sighted as it only focuses on the youngest children, a charity has claimed.

A commission has been launched to look at improving dignity and care to older patients in hospitals and care homes. The Partnership on Dignity in Care initiative has been formed by the NHS Confederation, Local Government Group (LG Group) and charity Age UK.

COUNCIL chiefs have approved controversial plans to shut three day centres for people in Bournemouth with learning disabilities.