Devon CC has lodged an appeal over a High Court ruling on how it sets care home fees to in order to put a stop to future legal challenges.

Children’s centres, residential care and support to get people into work in Stoke-on-Trent could all be affected as the city council looks to save £21m next year.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched new digital services to enable greater transparency around health and social care provision.

THE first training facility of its kind in the region has opened at a North-East College. Newcastle College’s Health and Care Simulation Centre is the first of its kind in the North East.

POLITICIANS will fail a “fundamental test of civilised society” if they do not find a solution to funding care for the elderly, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales had warned.

Up to 20 jobs are being created by a new care provider moving into Witney. DoCare has opened an office at the new Witney Business and Innovation Centre at the Windrush Industrial Park and is looking to recruit on the back of a new contract from Oxfordshire County Council.