DISTRESSED residents, their families and staff from district care homes facing closure or a sell-off have held emergency meetings.

THE first phase of Southport’s £5m state-of-the-art dementia care facility has been completed. A brood of chickens were the first residents to move in to Birch Abbey – described as the UK’s most advanced dementia care resource.

THE cost of looking after vulnerable adults is fast becoming Plymouth’s biggest burden, writes Political Reporter Keith Rossiter.

A SOCIAL worker put the safety of 33 vulnerable children at risk after failing to update their records and return confidential reports, a professional body heard.

A new head of children’s services at Cambridgeshire County Council has been appointed. Adrian Loades succeeds Gordon Jeyes as the new executive director of children and young people’s services.

LOOMING Government spending cuts will force social services to find more efficient ways of helping vulnerable residents, managers have warned.

A Haringey social worker today accepted undisclosed compensation over the authority’s false claim that she did not raise concerns about returning Baby P to his mother.

An elderly man suffered minor burns after being trapped in a fire at a sheltered housing complex in Suffolk.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first local authority to make web pages easily accessible to people with learning disabilities on their council website.

A broad welcome has been given by BASW to the announcement of a diverse membership for the Munro Review panel on the future of child protection.