A “DEPRESSED” carer who ripped off £400 from a 94-year-old woman in a Bristol residential home has been handed a suspended jail term.

Southern Cross, Britain’s largest operator of nursing homes, said yesterday earnings were running 8% better than last year, but admitted that it had still failed to resolve its long-term funding issues.

A private nursing home has been closed down by a social care watchdog after three snap inspections found residents were being “put at serious risk”.

An “old boy network” of officials is deliberately obstructing police investigating decades of alleged abuse at care homes in Jersey, according to the police officer who spearheaded the inquiry.
 

CARERS who help Liverpool’s most vulnerable people will have their efforts officially recognised for the first time.

The Department of Health has issued guidelines ahead of changes to the Mental Health Act that come into effect on November 3rd.

FORMER care home workers claim they were forced out of their jobs when abuse allegations were reported to the authorities.

A new mental health hospital is set to be built in Lincolnshire after planners gave it the green light.

A recent court ruling has set a precedent for the duty of care by local authorities to vulnerable adults in the community.

People with learning disabilities face unnecessary suffering and even death because of failings in the health service, an independent report warns.