Unison members at Brighton and Hove City Council are to be balloted for strike action.

THE council boss leading efforts turn around Birmingham’s failing children’s social services today admitted that so far he had not done a good enough job.

THE level of care received by people living in a Distington residential home was so poor that it was putting their health at risk, a report has revealed.

A TAXI driver who worked for social services driving special needs children to school has been convicted of a string of sexual offences against youngsters.

Members of the MS Society are calling for the charity to reverse the decision to close its four respite care centres, claiming the plans were made “behind closed doors”.

A self-harming teenage girl had to be sectioned after she was physically abused by her autisitc brother due to significant failures in Croydon’s social services department, an investigation found.

The government’s just-created Commission on the Funding of Care and Support must recognise the importance of pooled local budgets, an influential health thinktank has said.

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