The care system can help steer young people with experience of abuse and neglect away from crime, a report by The Adolescent and Children’s Trust (Tact) has found.

Staffordshire county council plans to transfer 1,000 adult social care employees to NHS to create the UK’s biggest integrated health and social care provider

A new service to help dementia sufferers is being launched after councils, the NHS and voluntary groups joined forces.

Asylum-seeking children have been routinely sent back to France within 24 hours under a “gentlemen’s agreement”, contrary to the requirement to safeguard their welfare, a report by the children’s commissioner for England has revealed.

THE frail, the elderly and people with learning difficulties are set to bear the brunt after county bosses laid out plans for slashing £21m from its adult social care budget, including shedding a further 165 jobs.

A coalition of major charities is calling on the Government to pause the Welfare Reform bill and carefully consider its reform of Disability Living Allowance (DLA).

Two key figures in social care have expressed doubt about the government’s reliance on personal budgets as the way forward

A group of doctors and clinicians want to take over the running of most mental health services in Bristol.

MYSTERY surrounds the abrupt closure of a Dorset care home after concerns were raised about the welfare of its 12 elderly residents.

Care minister Paul Burstow says decision on how much the elderly or disabled must pay themselves will not be made until spring