ABOUT 31,000 elderly people could be made homeless after a care home provider was plunged into fresh chaos.

Norfolk County Council’s mental health home support team were told this week the service would be wound up by September, with the loss of 23 jobs.

About 700 “least needy” vulnerable adults in Calderdale will lose their free care as the council lifts its social care threshold from those with “low” needs to those with “moderate” ratings.

Barnardo’s has agreed to run family welfare services at the government’s planned pre-departure accommodation centre for failed asylum seekers.

Training body Skills for Justice has announced plans to boost the profile of independent sexual violence advisers.

Campaigners warn that cuts to council funding will reduce services for children with special needs

Cuts of £33.6m, including the loss of more than 370 posts, have been approved by Nottingham City Council.

A woman from Hertfordshire has become the first person to be convicted of pretending to be a qualified social worker, six years after legislation protecting the professional title took effect.

Barnardo’s and Action for Children are stepping up efforts to secure a government-funded savings account for children in care.

THE leader of York Council has defended controversial plans to privatise part of its social care network for elderly residents as the only way forward, ahead of the proposals being rubber-stamped next week.