Pensioners paying as much as £75,000 a year for a care home place often do not know what they are paying for or whether they are getting value for money.

A Cornwall mental health trust faces legal action over alleged misuse of patients’ money by staff.  Claims of misuse at some Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust homes were made in an inspectors’ report last year.

A seafront hotel which became a “symbol of drugs and criminality” in Redcar has been shut by cops.

THE M.E.N. today lifts the lid on the human cost of a controversial shake-up in mental health care. William Scott, 49, from Blackley, Manchester, died of multiple stab wounds which his family say were self-inflicted after he lost the support worker he had relied on for eight years.

One of history’s original protesters has joined the fight to save Staffordshire’s council-run care homes. Lady Godiva, aka campaigner Simone Christian, rode topless on a mobility scooter outside the County Buildings in Stafford this morning to protest against the Changing Lives programme.

Social Services in Plymouth were not to blame for the death of baby Perrin Barlow five years ago, a coroner said today. Perrin died of natural causes to which neglect contributed, Nigel Meadows the coroner said.

A “Nurse of the Year” is leaving her job because of the strain of working for the NHS in an atmosphere of “mistrust and fear”, she said.

Most pensioners forced to sell their houses to cover care home bills are charged more than fellow residents paid for by the council, according to a damning Whitehall report.

Binge drinkers arrested for alcohol-related offences in Liverpool are to be fined £30 to pay for the costs of their own counselling.

A few weeks ago, the cry went up from my nine-year-old daughter at the laptop: “Oh, no, it’s the social worker!” It turned out that the appearance of the social worker on her Sims computer game signalled that her computer child was being taken away due to neglect.