The home support given to people with dementia and their carers is an “absolute travesty”, a charity says.

Nearly one in three prison officers working with vulnerable young offenders in custody have not completed training on safeguarding and assessing vulnerability, an investigation by CYP Now has found.

Wirral Mencap has joined forces with mental health organisation Family Tree in a bid to halt the closure of two Wirral care homes.

The much-anticipated Health and Social Care Bill was published on Wednesday. Although it contains few surprises, the sheer size of the document, and the monumental changes within it, cannot fail to invoke strong feelings and opinions, and, of course, many questions.

In the second week of a ten-week long campaign, UNISON is calling on them to make sure social workers can get time off in lieu (TOIL) or be paid for working additional hours.

A row has broken out over the establishment of the College of Social Work, after the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) announced plans to set up its own rival organisation.