A new report by Action for Children reveals how fundamental flaws in the funding of vital children’s services are creating a ticking time bomb for both vulnerable children and UK taxpayers.

The Government’s Open Public Services agenda, announced last year, encourages the voluntary sector to bring innovation to local services, but there are significant barriers which hamper this reality according to a new report launched today.

Care homes owned by Suffolk County Council are to be transferred to private operator Care UK after senior council leaders approved the move today.

HOME care must be radically reshaped to provide a service which is fit for the future, Oxford researchers have said.

As our society becomes increasingly digitalised, figures reveal a large proportion of those not online have a disability or are elderly

Dying people could end up in hospital sooner – and so cost taxpayers more – if cuts to social care services continue, a report warns today.

Funding for social work is worse today than it has been at any time in the last three decades. That’s the view of Nick Lovell, a BASW Council member and a social worker with 27 years experience in the field, who says that amidst the pressure of working in the face of such deep cuts social workers need to remind themselves of why they do their job and the difference they make to people’s lives.

The owners of a care home in Cornwall must pay £135,000 after a resident fell to his death from a faulty window.

Social workers have called for a new power of entry for local authorities to facilitate access to adults at risk of abuse or neglect.