A SCHEME to protect children who have witnessed or suffered domestic violence was to be rolled out across the city today.

Sunita Mason explains why her review of the criminal records regime will make life easier for those who care for the vulnerable

A NEW REPORT entitled Responsible Reform, published today by disabled people (9 January 2012), finds that government misled MPs and peers over the hostility to disability benefit reform.

Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being robbed of their dignity by England’s failing social care services and left at risk of “terrible abuse and neglect”, David Cameron has been warned.

Stronger financial regulation of care providers is needed to create an early warning system for struggling companies in the wake of Southern Cross’s collapse, according to a restructuring expert.

Politicians from all parties have been urged to work together to find a way to overhaul the “failing” social care system in England.

TWO Yorkshire nursing homes have been ordered to improve the care they give elderly residents after Government inspectors found a series of failings in unannounced inspections, including errors in medication dosage, and residents being left in dirty clothes.