A new manifesto argues for some basic building blocks to enable personalisation to be embedded into everyday social care and support

More than 50 vulnerable pensioners were threatened with legal action by Sefton Council to pay for care transport charges for as little as £3 within the past 12 months.

Judges have ruled that Birmingham City Council’s plans to limit social care for disabled people are unlawful. The families of four severely disabled people took the case to the High Court sitting in Birmingham.

Childminders must be helped to engage with other professionals to tackle changes in policy and funding challenges, according to the next chair of the National Childminding Association (NCMA).

Inadequate food, unclean and unsafe environments, understimulated and inactive residents and one case of possible abuse. These are some of the things Which? discovered in its investigation of care homes, where we asked three actors to spend a week of their lives in four randomly chosen residential and nursing homes.

Proposals to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates of education and children’s care would make the government’s policies on children with special educational needs, early years services and looked-after children unviable, sector leaders have warned.

A whistleblower at Wirral Borough Council has been offered his job back after a long running campaign by local paper, the Wirral Globe.

More children are being taken into care across the West Midlands, according to latest figures. Between 2008 and 2010 many councils saw rises of between 10 and 20%.

CHILD protection cases on Teesside have more than doubled over the past five years, and social workers warn they are struggling to cope.

Discrimination warning as coalition cuts prompt local authorities to set bar higher for eldery and disabled to receive care