The number of sex offenders banned from working with youngsters has soared from 4,921 to 8,036 in the last year, the Schools Secretary Ed Balls revealed today.

The government have been debating a new duty to give specialist support for parents caring for disabled children.

Somerset’s mental health hospitals have received a ‘Kite Mark’ for professionalism and exceptional standards of care.

The National Autistic Society (NAS) is launching a national campaign to raise awareness of the condition.

A COUNSELLING organisation is struggling to bid for support – because a council’s email system blocks the word “sexual”.

A CENTRE which has provided help to hundreds of homeless or vulnerable people in Sheffield is closing due to lack of funding.

A major expansion in occupational health services to keep people in work and off disability benefit is likely to be recommended in a report to be published today.

A member of staff at the Greenfields secure unit for children has been suspended from work.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to close a Teesside nursing home could lead to the deaths of some elderly residents, it has been claimed.

Shannon Matthews, the Dewsbury schoolgirl who has been missing for 24 days, has been made the subject of an emergency care order just hours after being found.