THOUSANDS of council staff will be asked to take a half an hour cut in their working week to help save £2.6m at a cash-strapped Yorkshire authority. It comes after

Changes planned for the provision of support services for children and families could see the county’s children centres developed as early help specialists, with libraries planning a greater role. Northamptonshire

Councils are putting the human rights of elderly residents at risk by excessively cutting the wages of home carers, regulators have said. Home care commissioning practices are currently ‘unsustainable’ and

An under-fire health and social care provider has been told it can continue to provide services for vulnerable people, after council bosses said they were satisfied it had improved. Care

Baby P’s mother is set to walk free from prison within days after serving just six years. Tracey Connelly was jailed indefinitely with a minimum of five years in May

A care service in Sheffield which looks after the elderly and disabled has been given an official warning after inspectors discovered poor standards. The Care Quality Commission health watchdog has

Two thirds of councils are commissioning 15-minute care visits for disabled residents despite concerns about their appropriateness, a charity has warned. The proportion of ‘flying’ care visits lasting 15 minutes

In the last year there has been a 28.4 per cent increase in alerts made to councils about abuse to older people, fuelling worries about abuse in the UK. The