FIVE council-run care homes in Wirral are to close to save the authority £2.7m.

Volunteering charity Youth Action Network (YAN) is set to close in September after failing to secure additional funding.

Jobcentre Plus and A&R Training Services Ltd will bring together social care employers with vacancies in residential or domiciliary care in the Wakefield area for a social care jobs fair on January 26.

HUNDREDS of elderly people face reductions in their home care help as Torbay Care Trust attempts to cut £2million from its budget next year.

Delays in young children’s ability to speak and listen properly are leaving them struggling to learn to read and write, Ofsted has warned.

TWO carers have been charged following the death of a doting great grandma at a Tyneside care home.