A new resource to support clinical commissioning groups in designing and purchasing high quality dementia services was launched today by Care Services Minister Paul Burstow.

Kent County Council is to replace an IT system used by social workers that has cost thousands of pounds after it was found to have major shortcomings.

A Steiner school is facing a compensation payout of up to £100,000 to a whistle-blowing teacher after ignoring her complaint about an alleged assault on her daughter.

Up to 89 elderly and disabled people have been affected by the decision to close four care homes in north London.

Council and NHS contracts with Swindon Mind, Swindon Carers Centre and other charities have been extended until March next year after judicial review move is proposed

Government funding cuts have forced more than half of London’s charitable organisations to close services in the last year, the Evening Standard has learned.

DISGRUNTLED staff at a Wroughton care home claim their livelihoods are in jeopardy after a mix-up over who will pay their salaries.

ONE of the South-West’s leading providers of care and support for older people has opened up the application process for the first time to recruit 18 apprentices across care, administration and maintenance roles.

Managers have admitted there is an “industry problem” in the way older patients are treated, which needs “cultural change” as well as regulation.

Cornwall Council has agreed “robust plans” to radically overhaul its failing social work department including increasing social workers’ salaries with a bonus after two years on the front line.