THE company in charge of a South Tyneside care home at the centre of a police probe will not face any criminal charges. But the detective leading the inquiry into deaths at St Michael’s View Care Home, today, told the Gazette: “The case is not closed.”

THE Birmingham politician handed the task of transforming the city’s failing children’s social services department has warned the council cannot stop children dying.

SOCIAL workers are to face an inquiry by the national watchdog over the death of seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq. The city council has referred three social workers to the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

A care home was stripped of its license after carers were found to be giving clients double doses of medication. Inspectors rated East Clayton farm in Washington, near Storrington, as poor after finding evidence of incomplete records and “weak” management.

AN angry daughter has spoken of how she felt sick to her stomach when told her dementia sufferer mum had been the target for humiliating abuse at a care home.

Four women have won compensation claims after suffering years of abuse in a care home. The women all spent a significant period of time at Newfield House care home in Foleshill, Coventry.

An inquest jury has said failings by the Prison Service and Essex Social Services contributed to an 18-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker’s suicide.

Salford council’s beleaguered children’s services has been branded ‘inadequate’ for the second time in four years. The ranking is the lowest a local authority can get.

Social workers are almost unanimous in the view that any cuts to social work services would leave already massively understaffed child protection teams less able to keep vulnerable young people safe from harm.

THE boss leading moves to axe council day centres says it would help people become less and not more isolated. Buckinghamshire County Council’s Rita Lally is heading up plans to axe funding from 22 day centres and replace them with two or three large and two small facilities.