A CARE home for elderly people with learning difficulties near Winchester is to close. Compton House, in Otterbourne Road, Compton, will shut later this month after decades of service.

A public consultation is to be held over the future of two of Sheffield’s three dementia support centres.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined £120,000 for sending emails about a child protection case to the wrong person.

PARENTS of children with severe special needs are “at breaking point” because their funding has been cut, an MP has warned.

A CARE home where an 87-year-old woman fell to her death from the roof has been exonerated by a coroner. Dolly Cook, who had dementia, often wandered at night at the Highfield House residential home in Newent.

The income  of the NSPCC fell by £12.9m in the last financial year, its latest accounts show. The children’s charity’s annual report shows its income fell to £135.7m in 2011/12 from £148.6m in 2010/11 – a drop of 8.7 per cent.