Residents will be treated with “care and consideration” if they have to move from a care home earmarked for closure, Kent County Council has said.

SOCIAL services did everything possible to help a mother and her severely disabled daughter found dead at their Wheathampstead home at the weekend, Hertfordshire County Council has insisted.

A nursing home worker stole £50,000 from elderly residents to fund his cocaine habit. Jaspal Sandhar, 25, also spent the cash on hiring flash cars, buying designer clothes and gambling at casinos.

The NSPCC is concerned that an extension of the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, known as Sarah’s Law, will drive paedophiles underground and lead to an increase in vigilante attacks.

An alliance of 18 senior family lawyers, unions, children’s charities and health organisations is calling for an urgent overhaul of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).

The government has announced an independent commission into early intervention to ensure that children with multiple disadvantages get the best start in life.

BASW has today slammed the current situation in child protection as a national scandal in the Association’s submission to Professor Munro’s independent review of child protection.

Hopes have been raised that a care home under threat of closure could remain open after a buyer came forward.

A letter leaked to CYP Now has revealed the Department for Education (DfE) is ordering charities delivering government-funded programmes to stop publicising their work with immediate effect in an apparent bid to save on spending.

Eleven suspected illegal immigrants have been detained following a raid at a Hampshire private nursing home.