Too many social workers are “colluding” with parents to make excuses for their children’s behaviour, troubled families tsar Louise Casey has said. Ms Casey said social workers had to be

A care home for elderly people in Berkshire is to close, despite a campaign to save it. Reading Borough Council voted to shut the Arthur Clark home in Caversham, saying

A care worker from the Forest of Dean will today appear in court charged with nine counts of ill-treating or neglecting three patients. Brent Morgan denies the offences that are

The government is attempting to end the “postcode lottery” over care for elderly and disabled people in England. Under new draft rules all councils in England would have to fund

Care workers who are taking their bosses to an employment tribunal have staged a rally in Greater Manchester. Ninety-nine employees of Future Directions CIC, which provides social care for disabled

The borough’s day care service for the elderly is facing a shake up, after the council’s cabinet rubberstamped a proposal to merge all four centres into one. A review of

A social worker who was part of a group which gathered outside a couple’s house and shouted ‘baby murderers’ has been suspended from the profession for 12 months. Joanna Burgess