A dying mother has appealed for more time with her children after being banned from seeing them for more than 90 minutes a fortnight.
 

TWO social workers have been arrested amid claims that one of them tried to sell cocaine to cops at a police party. The women – who were employed by Manchester council – are alleged to have openly used cocaine in front of officers.

The current system for accessing and funding adult social care is overly complicated and financially unsustainable, London Councils warned today.

The elderly could be asked to pay an ‘inheritance levy’ of up to £12,000 to help fund a revolution in old age care. Proposals will be unveiled within weeks in an attempt to end the scandal of an estimated 60,000-plus pensioners a year being forced to sell properties to pay for care home places.

Police are searching for two young girls who went missing from separate care homes over the weekend. Natalie Mustafa, 12, who had run away earlier in the week, was last seen leaving her care home, Ingleside Children’s Home in Mayfield Road, South Croydon at 10.05am on Tuesday 11 June.