Children are almost 13 times more likely to be taken into care in some parts of the country than others, official figures show.

Child protection services in Cornwall have been updated after the service was branded “inadequate” by Ofsted.

Two of Baby P’s social workers have lost an appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that they were fairly sacked.

Closure of care home beds across Birmingham did not have a negative impact on the majority of older people affected, according to research in which 77 per cent of respondents suggested that life had got better or stayed the same as a result of their “resettlement”.