CRISIS mental health services have been criticised over claims they failed to assist a patient desperate for help.

TEN care home staff have been suspended while a major investigation is carried out.

Up to a quarter of a million elderly and disabled people will see their dignity and quality of life suffer after a legal decision paved the way for widespread cutbacks to home care, charities warned.

A SPECIAL school in Lincoln, described as a place where “everybody smiles” is celebrating after being awarded an outstanding rating by Ofsted.

The mental health of black and minority ethnic (BME) children and young people is being ignored by services including education, social care and youth justice, a report has claimed.

The new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has urged child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) professionals to promote their work to GP commissioners and new health and wellbeing boards.

THE search for a company to run a care service for elderly people in York will have to be relaunched after only one provider came forward.

The “barriers” to integration between health and social care have “got worse” in the last year, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has said.

The architect of proposals to shake-up the child protection social work in England, Professor Eileen Munro, has called for an end to a culture that “assumes human error happens because there are too few rules and legislations when in fact the exact opposite is often the case”.

A FORMER care home manager who is accused of stealing from residents will face a trial at Lincoln Crown Court.