The Department of Health has joined forces with 11 specialist organisations including Age Concern, the Men’s Health Forum and the Race Equality Foundation in a bid to transform the way it works with third sector organisations, Care Services Minister Phil Hope announced today.

Council leaders have criticised the Laming review into the death of Baby P for not going far enough to protect vulnerable children.

AN update on children’s services in Surrey, which were labelled inadequate in an independent report last year, has revealed progress in all but two of 15 target areas.

The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced the death of its Chairman Michael Leadbetter.

A nurse who worked at a Bristol care home has been accused of failing to properly look after patients in her care. Nonhlanhla Nkomo was suspended from Sunnymead Manor in Southmead after a catalogue of errors on a single day which allegedly put patients at serious risk.

In the second part of her investigation, Amelia Gentleman looks at the European approach that some believe could fix Britain’s failing children’s homes

The government is recruiting 60 highly-qualified social workers from Germany, Norway and the Netherlands to lead an experimental programme which could revolutionise the way children’s residential care homes are run.

A care home boss told police ‘s*** happens in our business’ after a resident choked to death on a ham sandwich, a court heard today.

In the first part of our series on the care system, Amelia Gentleman looks at how young people are let down by the state’s inability to deliver social justice.

A CRUMBLING former council-run children’s care home is to be demolished and replaced with two new buildings.