A new website has been created to assist professionals who work with unpaid family carers. The site has been developed by the Princess Royal Trust.

Two reports produced today by the Healthcare Commission suggest older people are often denied access to the full range of mental health services available to younger adults and that improvements are needed to adult community specialist mental health services.

FOR years he lived in utter isolation, was refused life-saving insulin if he misbehaved and treated like a slave by those who were meant to love him most.

A crucial meeting has been arranged after members of a civil rights action group formed a blockade outside the city council’s social services department in Birmingham.

A social worker convicted of having sex with an under-age girl has been struck off the professional register.

Anger has greeted news that no-one will be prosecuted after a “catalogue of abuse” was uncovered at Budock Hospital.

Worried staff at a pre-school centre for special needs children in Moray last night claimed new qualification requirements could put a huge strain on their facility.

PLANS are being drawn up by the city council to give older and disabled people direct control over a £21m social services budget.

A £1M care home project in Galley Common will create 30 local jobs.Staff will be needed to work in the centre, which is designed to provide independent, but supported, living accommodation for eight adults with learning difficulties.

Improvements are being made in West Sussex County Council’s child protection service – which had been strongly criticised by the Ombudsman – but there is ‘still a long way to go’, a County Hall meeting was told.