Families who care for young people with severe learning difficulties say they are at crisis point after care was cut back at a Bradford Council-run respite centre.

A controversial children’s home near Bristol looks set to open this summer in spite of widespread opposition from locals.
Residential care provider Northerncare has applied for a licence for its new home in Portishead and said the new facility could be up and running in two to three months.

A CARE home has been boarded up – despite res- idents and their families still being officially con-sulted on its closure. Blackburn with Darwen Council announced plans to close Brookside Care Home, in Pearl Street, Blackburn, as a “plan B” to cut costs for elderly care after it failed to sell three of its five homes.

A nursing home has won a planning appeal against Colchester Council. Inspector Christopher Anstey ruled in favour of Abberton Manor after hearing both sides of the debate in March.

The worst-taught degrees in the country have been exposed by disgruntled students, with subjects taught at Britain’s elite universities ranked among the worst performers.
 

A high proportion of suspected victims of child trafficking are disappearing from local authority care, according to an influential body of MPs.

Ofsted has published its revised plans on inspection of safeguarding and looked-after children, including unannounced inspections of child protection services in every local authority.