BASW has expressed concern that senior figures in social care aren’t “prepared to rock the boat” and tackle the culture revealed by a Which? report which asked 30 elderly people or their families to keep diaries of their experiences of home care provided by paid workers and found examples of missed visits, people left alone without food, drink or medication or even access to the toilet.

Seventy four charities are to get a share of around £6.8m to “test and develop innovative approaches to improve health and wellbeing”, the care services minister Paul Burstow has announced.

Patients and service users want integrated services, easy access and less paperwork, say Jules Acton and Don Redding

A RALLYING call for the future of social care in Scarborough and North Yorkshire is how a major conference in the region has been hailed.

A four-year pilot to improve access to health services for young offenders has helped reduce levels of depression and self-harm, according to latest evaluation.

A “key” to unlocking names withheld in the Anna Klonowski social services investigation has been published by Wirral Council.

Opportunities were missed to protect a baby in Stoke-on-Trent, an inquest has heard. Seven-month-old Alfie Smith died in June 2010, four months after he was found unconscious on a sofa.

A specialist team is being developed in a ground-breaking move to tackle the growing menace of child sexual exploitation in the Bradford district.