The government will tomorrow announce it is to give everyone who uses social care services control of their own budgets, enabling them to tailor the service.

The costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world’s gross domestic product this year at $604bn (£388bn), a report says.

Social workers are leading a new group, set up to make it easier for people living in County Durham to report concerns over the safety of children.

A renowned and experienced child safeguarding professional has been named as the new independent chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board Northamptonshire.

A nursing home worker who stole £50,000 from elderly residents to finance his cocaine habit and flash lifestyle has been jailed for 18 months.

Campaigners have voiced alarm at revelations that staff in immigration detention centres and officers escorting children onto planes for deportation are authorised to use restraint techniques.

THE head of a Teesside council’s adult services department, responsible for adult social care services, has been suspended in the wake of a critical care quality inspection.

A initiative aimed at helping homeless children was launched this week. Street to School, a partnership between insurance firm Aviva and charity Railway Children, aims to help 100,000 children at risk on UK streets.