Two staff members at a residential care home in Meare have been suspended amid allegations of abuse.

Planning permission has been lodged for an extension to a dementia care unit in Malvern. Friends of the Elderly want to build a 24-bedroom two-storey building to extend its current facilities.

The leading learning disability charity in the UK has announced the appointment of its new chief executive.

Social services failed to recognise the risk posed by a mentally ill woman who killed her two children after being allowed unsupervised access, an inquiry has found.

Two workers at a Nottingham care home have been arrested on suspicion of assaulting elderly residents. Police confirmed they were investigating the treatment of residents at the privately-run Chester House in Sherwood Rise.

PLANS to transform a former Liskeard hospital into a care village for older people have been given the green light.

Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing their behaviour.

Almost 300 people have allegedly been abused and beaten by immigration, escort and security staff, a dossier sent to the Home Office claims.

Children at a Jersey care home were sexually assaulted, murdered and their bodies burned, a report summarising evidence of the abuse is expected to say.

Children with Aids-related HIV are being turned away and excluded from primary and secondary schools throughout the UK in contravention of anti-discrimination laws.