ONE of the UK’s most advanced dementia care facilities is soon to open in Southport. Birch Abbey care home which will soon open a £5million extension in Alexandra Road specially designed to cater for those suffering from dementia.

RESIDENTS in East Sussex will have better access to adult social care and health information from this month.

AN OUTSPOKEN Labour councillor has quit the Isle of Wight Council’s social care scrutiny panel, branding it useless and ineffective.

After an election campaign in which social care failed to register on the political radar, its inclusion in the coalition’s programme for government will be welcomed.

Ofsted has produced a new report that evaluates the range and effectiveness of the arrangements for education and training for several categories of young people: those identified for their likelihood of offending; young offenders who move into custodial establishments then are transferred between different establishments while in custody; and those who move between custody and the community.

The General Social Care Council (GSCC) conduct committee has ignored public pressure for punitive sanctions against two social workers involved in the Baby Peter case by only suspending them from the register for a short period.

There is an urgent need for better care for older people, a national charity has said. Commenting as the appointment of a new care minister was announced by the coalition government, Counsel and Care said there needs to be sweeping reform of the care system.

The new government’s hardliner welfare team strikes fear in mental health service users and disabled people writes Peter Beresford.

Researchers from the University of the West England are calling for changes to the UK residential home care system to ensure older people have a ‘home for life’ and are not pushed out to hospitals or nursing homes unnecessarily.

More than a third of social workers and police officers say they have felt powerless to intervene in suspected cases of child neglect, research reveals