A CARE home for people with severe learning disabilities has been closed down by council bosses.

WORK is due to begin next month on a £3 million care home in Burnley Road, Todmorden. Asquith Hall will provide nursing and residential care for up to 52 people and create 70 new nursing and ancillary jobs.

An older people’s charity has today launched its own manifesto, which seeks pledges from all three political parties that the needs of the elderly will be met in their general election manifestos.

BIRMINGHAM social care bosses have been accused of cutting back on much-needed adaptations to vulnerable disabled and elderly people’s homes.

Doctors should detain a child in hospital if they suspect abuse and alert key agencies, such as social services and police, according to guidance published today.

The Care Quality Commission has named three directors to complete its seven-strong senior management team. The new super regulator over health, mental health and adult social care started operating on 1 April.

A CARE home closure has sparked controversy after it shut its doors 19 months after a council admitted it was failing residents’ needs.

A PROBE is being held into the death of a care home resident.Peter Hunt, 42, was living at Care Principles, Cedar House, Dover Road, Barham.

Government plans to offer graduates £20,000 to take up a career in social care will not go far enough to ease the sector’s recruitment crisis, experts have warned.

The social care personalisation agenda has received a boost with news that the number of people getting individual budgets (IBs) has risen by nearly third in a year.