LAWYERS acting for residents of two council care homes threatened with closure say they are prepared go back to court to protect their clients’ health.

Older people in  Britain are being drugged and robbed when they need care, claims the Alzheimer’s Society.  The charity is accusing the government of ‘daylight robbery’ with thousands facing escalating care bills unless action is taken to change the system.

A CARE home worker has been locked up for 30 months after sexually violating a mentally disabled pensioner. Andrew Houghton, 34, sexually abused a 67-year-old woman at a south Huddersfield care home.

A PAEDOPHILE nurse from Kidderminster has been struck off after he was caught with a video of a 10-year-old girl on his computer.

A mother has had her three-year-old daughter taken away from her by social services after authorities deemed her too stupid to look after the child.

The conduct of children’s secretary Ed Balls following the Baby P case has been attacked by the director-general of the representative body for council chief executives.

A FORMER social worker at Warrington Borough Council has been disciplined after inviting a mother and child into her home to conduct a formal meeting.

A FLAGSHIP Sheffield care home which charges up to £416 a week was slammed by a standards watchdog as dirty, unhygienic and failing to meet residents’ physical and social needs.

Craegmoor Healthcare, a leading provider of specialist care and support to people with learning disabilities, mental health illnesses and older people, has opened a new purpose-built Autism unit at its Turketel Road Care Home in Folkestone in Kent after linking up with local schools to assess the need for more locally-based Autism care and support.

An online auction system developed for councils to buy cheap wheelie bins and stationery is being used to buy end-of-life and dementia care for vulnerable elderly people.