South Manchester-based Apex Health and Social Care is to create 50 jobs following contract wins in the north west.

AN organisation aimed at improving health and social care services has come under fire for failing to engage with Islanders.

A project which provides much needed services to vulnerable young people has become the first victim of the county council’s non-cooperation with the city council.

A former soldier who attacked a severely disabled man as they exercised on a trampoline at a County Durham care home has been jailed for eight months.

Ministers were last night urged to stop locking up children and teenagers in a controversial immigration detention centre after its conditions were condemned by the Children’s Commissioner.

Older mothers are at an increased risk of having a child with autism, new research shows. The study, which was carried out by researchers from the University of California, Davis, shows that the father’s age was not usually a factor for having a child with autism, but the risk was significantly higher when the mother was older.

A debate about how the UK can fund the care needed for elderly people is badly needed, a charity has said. According to Stephen Burke, chief executive of Counsel and Care, healthcare and support for elderly people is “substantially underfunded”.

Labour has ‘no idea’ how to pay for Gordon Brown’s flagship policy of providing free home care for elderly people, the Conservatives have said.
 

Children’s trusts should develop joint service plans for looked-after children spanning health, education and social care services, according to proposals announced by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice).

A CARE worker has been found guilty of the assault of a vulnerable adult at a home in Wheathampstead. Mark Hooper, 46, from Stopsley, Luton, was given an 18-month conditional discharge and fined £200 after being found guilty of assault and sentenced at St Albans Magistrates Court.