Every day, over a million working parents use childminders and private nurseries, believing their babies are in hands of highly qualified, strictly regulated and genuine caring people.

Most people are unaware of the funding that they may or may not be entitled to in order to pay for a care home and social care when they are elderly, an expert claims.

A staff nurse who murdered four elderly patients with lethal injections of insulin was today jailed for life and told he would serve a minimum of 30 years.

The investigation into child abuse at Jersey children’s homes is likely to spread to Guernsey after an alleged victim said he was attacked by staff of residential homes on both Channel Islands.
 

THE facilities provided on a Trafford elderly rehabilitation ward are sub-standard and could create infection risks – according to the nurses who work there.

Care for vulnerable adults in Cornwall has “a long way to go”, according to a highly critical leaked report.

Staff at a Jersey care home are being investigated over claims that they covered up suicides and mysterious deaths of children as police discovered further possible human remains yesterday.

Records of deaths during the three decades when children allegedly suffered brutal sexual and physical abuse at Haut de la Garenne are being reviewed after concerns that they were not investigated properly at the time. Police are also drawing up a list of former residents from the 1960s to 1986 who cannot be traced.

More than 160 victims have contacted police with allegations that they were abused in underground punishment rooms, detention cells, the sick bay and during organised boating trips around the island. Some residents and staff have told police that children disappeared during the night.

Elderly people can benefit from care workers coming to visit them in the community, new analysis shows.

Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced plans devised by the government which could see elderly married couples allowed to live together if they have to go into a care home.

TRAFFORD Council has highlighted six priority areas in its latest budget – and the areas it needs to cut back on to achieve them.