The owners, and indeed the manager of a residential care home in Newcastle have been fined more than £22,000 for breaching fire safety regulations.

Cornwall Council’s children’s services have again been labelled as “inadequate” by Ofsted. It follows a damning report in 2009 which found similar problems.

A CHILDREN’S respite care centre in Ormskirk could be under threat as Lancashire County Council looks to save £179m on its budget over the next three years.

Six day care centres for elderly people are to close in the Grantham area. Community Care for the Elderly said it was unable to continue services beyond 31 March due to uncertainty around the future of county council contracts.

Councils and the NHS should be sharing data more effectively to better predict which residents are most likely to need “intensive social care” according to health think-tank the Nuffield Trust.

Thousands of workers at Nottinghamshire County Council will stage a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest at “savage” spending cuts and the threat of 1,000 job losses.

A LONG-RUNNING pensioners’ day care service has been axed after Walsall Council pulled the plug on its funding, claiming it was not value for money.

Council spending cuts are predicted to result in the loss of 81,000 care home beds across the UK over the next 10 years, intensifying NHS bed-blocking problems, BUPA has warned.

In the latest local government effort towards cross-border procurement, five London boroughs are working together to make their adult social care more efficient through an IT contract.

About 300 council jobs are being axed in Reading as part of budget cuts, a total of about 6% of the workforce.