A new recruitment toolkit aims to help employers select the right candidates, by Debbie Sorkin As Camilla Cavendish noted in her review of practice among healthcare assistants and care support

Closing two day care centres and cutting 51 jobs is a “financial necessity”, Manchester City Council has said. The plan, which will be considered by the Health Scrutiny Committee on

Children’s services in Doncaster will be ‘spun out’ into staff-owned trust after series of damning reports A council has been stripped of its powers to provide child protection by the

The majority of former patients at a private hospital where abuse was exposed have been moved to community-based homes, the BBC has learned. Eleven care workers admitted a total of

Doncaster council should be stripped of control of its children’s services because of a “legacy of failure”, a review has found. The independent review recommends appointing an independent trust to

MORE alleged victims of abuse at Nottingham children’s homes have come forward to tell their stories. The Post reported on Saturday that police are investigating claims of abuse at five

A Bedfordshire care home is to close by Friday, following a damning inspection report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Meppershall Care Home, near Shefford, closed to new admissions on

Social services, police, probation and other agencies were not to blame for the death of Tia Sharp, who was murdered by Stuart Hazell, a report has said. Tia was 12