A dishonest carer has been ordered to repay cash stolen from an elderly lady. Sharon Brown befriended 78-year-old Margaret Savage of Newton Hall, Durham City, after working for her as a visiting carer.

Forty-six people have been arrested in the UK as part of an operation to dismantle a global paedophile network after an investigation into a website that sold tailor-made videos of children being abused.

Looking after children is hard work. Caring for children with special educational needs can be physically, mentally and emotionally draining.

Four people have been arrested in Leeds on suspicion of people trafficking. Police arrested two men and two women in the Harehills and Roundhay areas of Leeds yesterday.

The mother of a teenager who was sexually assaulted by a former Crown Prosecution Service manager says she is devastated his sentence has been cut.

A former social worker who was reprimanded for “inappropriate touching” has been appointed chairman of governors at a school.

A team manager at a care home at Thornton Cleveleys, convicted of sexually abusing a young man, has been jailed for five years.

A care home business is at the centre of serious allegations of financial engineering at the expense of hundreds of its workers. Excelcare is owned by a Jersey-based firm and operates 37 care homes throughout England and Wales.

Next week is national adoption week and more children in Dorset need a permanent home than ever before, according to the county council.

A number of staff at a council-run residential home in Rotherham have been suspended amid an investigation into standards of care, it has emerged.