The deputy manager of a north London care home where a young resident choked to death on a ham sandwich will be sentenced for breaching her health and safety duty.

CARE home operator Rotherham Healthcare, has started work on a 60-bed specialist home in a deal funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Healthcare team.

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.

The NSPCC has published a new leaflet summarising the practical implications of the latest thinking on the clinical presentation of spinal and head injuries in children.

THE new boss of a social services department at the centre of a child deaths scandal has been recruited from a neighbouring authority – which itself has seen three children die from abuse or neglect.

Workers suspended from Lancashire County Council over an alleged anti-Semitic e-mail have vowed to fight to keep their jobs.

A nurse who became a “whistleblower” by secretly filming the neglect of elderly patients for a television documentary was yesterday struck off.

Potentially incompetent or dangerous social workers are able to carry on working with vulnerable people because councils fail to report misconduct, the industry watchdog has warned.

ELDERLY campaigners have demanded an urgent investigation into alleged failures in York’s home-care services.