The Scout Association is to start offering its members sexual health and relationships advice. New guidance, geared mainly to 14 to 18-year-olds, advises leaders to discuss contraception and encourage resisting of peer pressure to have sex.

HOLIDAYS to Barbados and football season tickets could be paid for by the county council as part of a radical shake up of social services.

Northamptonshire County Council looks set to shake-up its adult social care services. The council’s cabinet is considering for older people, shifting its focus toward domiciliary care, supported by telecare, and doing-up existing care homes. And for people with learning disabilities, the council is to enter into a joint commissioning plan with Northamptonshire Teaching Primary Care Trust.

A carer has gone on trial accused of stealing more than £19,000 from a frail and vulnerable 77 year old women she was supposed to be looking after.

A SOCIAL worker who failed to launch an inquiry when a teenager told her she was being abused has won an appeal against a ban.

Drug or alcohol abuse among children under the age of 15 is a cause and not an effect of a host of health and social problems, research has suggested.

For some, the internet is merely a hiding place — a web of secret corridors where all manner of shameful deeds unfold. But the police never expected that it might become a strategic platform where two groups of society’s outcasts, terrorists and child sex abusers, could meet to exchange operational secrets.

POLICE have released an e-fit of a woman wanted in connection with a suspicious call to the home of a mother and her child in Jubilee Crescent, Louth on Wednesday July 9 this year.

A FORMER care home which has been put up for sale by a council may still be developed as a home for the elderly.

Help is at hand for care workers and care managers looking to deliver the NHS End of Life Care programme in their care home.