The Government’s social care plans were branded a “train crash” today after Health Secretary Andy Burnham confirmed a National Care Service would not be created for at least five years.

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, says white paper being published today will be ‘a train crash’ because ministers have changed tack

Nurses are struggling to access child protection training due to funding cuts, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) published today.

Beneath the sash window of a care home in Wimbledon, lit by a shaft of spring sunlight, Lady Cicely Mayhew sits in the leather chair she occupies most days. Now 86, she reminisces about her adventures as the first female British diplomat, and her childhood growing up in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

Gordon Brown will tomorrow return to the issue of immigration by promising that no more unskilled workers will be allowed into Britain from outside the EU for the foreseeable future.

Child protection services in Kent are managing to cope with “enormous pressure”, a report has found. Kent County Council’s review identified a 22% rise in referrals to children’s services between April 08 and March last year.

A jury has gone out to consider its verdicts in the trial of a south London nursery manager accused of force-feeding children.

Agencies involved with a woman who drowned her four-year-old daughter failed to recognise the extent of her mental health problems, a report says.

A new organisation is being set up to help NHS and social care bodies plan their workforce around delivering more productive and people centred care, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today.