Sheltered accommodation could soon be built on the site of a care home set for closure.

Rita Jermaine is 75, virtually blind and can barely walk but has been told she cannot move into a council nursing home because she smokes.

The government’s new programme of personalised public services could see NHS patients being given a budget to buy their own care and parents the money to hire their own teachers.

The boss of the Jersey care “home of horror” was a paedophile who raped his own foster daughter, according to sensational new claims.

A new centre for carers has opened in one of Plymouth’s most famous buildings – staffed by volunteers and paid for through fundraising.

A schizophrenic former police officer who defrauded her lover out of more than £20,000 before setting fire to their home has avoided jail.

Relatives of elderly residents at a care home in Cambridgeshire have said they were not told about low inspection results and falling standards of care.
 

THURROCK Council has promised a wide-ranging shake-up in its social services department after a catalogue of blunders led to clashes between antisocial neighbours and vulnerable residents.

Youth workers have been threatened with the sack if they don’t accept a new restructuring deal, according to documents leaked to The Herald.

A High Court judge who condemned Nottingham City Council for unlawfully taking a teenage mother’s newborn baby from her has called for an urgent review of training and management of social workers and hospital staff.