A deputy care home manager who allowed staff to drink booze when they took residents on a trip to Blackpool has been allowed to keep her job.

Michael Murphy explains why the population is steadily ageing and why men are making a comeback in their nineties

Cash-strapped local authorities are cutting nursing services for elderly people, research suggests.

THE Royal Borough of Windor’s children’s social services have been criticised in an independent report.

HEALTH bosses are planning a shake-up in the way they look after children in Doncaster.

Ofsted’s deputy chief inspector and director of social care John Goldup is to leave the inspectorate by “mutual agreement” this month and will be replaced by the current president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

Police have received more than 5,000 reports of under-18-year-olds sexually abusing other children over the last three years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

Brain injury patients are at risk of ending up on the streets or entering the criminal justice system once they leave hospital because over-stretched social care departments are struggling to support them, a Senior Social Worker warned.