Older and disabled people suffer postcode lottery over fees as numbers who have home care paid by local council fall 11%

Andrea Sutcliffe, of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, on funding cuts, maintaining a diverse talent pool and its new website for people looking for social care

Over-the-counter HIV tests that would allow people to check in the privacy of their homes if they have the virus have moved a step closer in the US.

BASW has called for a “sustained governmental commitment” to child protection following the publication of a serious case review examining the circumstances prior to the murder of five-year-old Tyler Whelan, which identified a number of systemic failures throughout the period leading up to his death in March 2011.