The NHS could help improve the care of over 15 million people living with long-term conditions and reduce the number of unnecessary trips to hospital if the most innovative work being pioneered in other parts of the NHS were adopted nationwide.

Online human rights guidance aims to bring more clarity and support for public sector organisations in England and Wales

The charity Catholic Care has launched a fourth appeal against a ruling that it cannot exclude gay couples from using its adoption service.

A SIGNIFICANT number of vulnerable children in Waltham Forest have been put at risk due to council failures, a damning report has found.

Social workers in Southampton have voted to extend their strike action over cuts to council staff pay.

CAMPAIGNERS have described the closure of two day care centres in New Malden as a ‘travesty of justice’.

BUDGET cuts could mean restricting social care for adults in Torbay to critical cases only, councillors have been told.

Nottinghamshire County Council and NHS Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County are set to invest an extra £18.8m on services to help older people live safely in their own homes. The two-year investment will also reduce the need for much greater spending on costly, long-term residential and hospital care.

Police and a care quality watchdog are investigating the running of a former home for dementia sufferers.

A bid by the Department for Education and Haringey Council to overturn a ruling that former social services chief Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly dismissed following the Baby P tragedy has failed.