A GOVERNMENT watchdog and Gloucestershire County Councillors have clashed over the care of vulnerable people following a damning report from social care inspectors last week.

The social services boss sacked over the death of Baby P has told how she contemplated killing herself over the scandal.

The nursing and social care sector is suffering from a severe skills shortage, according to a new survey.

Gloucestershire CC has refuted a Commission for Social Care Inspection report that raised “serious concerns” about its adult safeguarding work.

ADULT health and social care could be heading towards a “crisis” if changes are not made to the system soon, north Norfolk’s MP has warned.

A BIRMINGHAM care home was fined £66,000 after an elderly resident died following a fall in which she fractured her pelvis.

Lincolnshire social services made no mistakes in the case of a woman who left her toddler son home alone – a review has found.

Birmingham City Council has been ordered to make “robust and sustained” improvements to its children’s social care services following the deaths of 15 youngsters from abuse and neglect.

A senior doctor is to be put in charge of overseeing dementia care in every hospital in England as part of a government drive to improve diagnosis and treatment of the condition.

A PROJECT to help firefighters in East Yorkshire spot signs of child abuse could be rolled out nationally following its success.