POLICE are looking for two women who entered a family home posing as social service workers. A family in Eltham were visited on February 11 by two white women in their 30s, a blonde with curly hair and a Mediterranean with a mole on her jaw.

A device found outside a council office in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, before being made safe by an Army bomb disposal team was “intended to cause harm”, police said.

Unemployed young people will be offered 50,000 traineeships in the social care sector under a scheme called CareFirst, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced.

Despite the Government’s commitment to make increasing use of the third sector in delivering public services, progress has been slow. A new agreement between the Department of Health and specialist third sector organisations is set to increase the flow of contracts for health and social care services.

A CARE assistant murdered a frail dementia patient at a home by setting fire to her bed and leaving her to burn, a court has heard.

Charges for residents in Birmingham City Council care homes have rocketed by up to £183 a week – days after the local authority said it could only afford a 49p increase in the amount it pays for elderly people to be looked after in private sector residential homes.

The Government’s policy of increasing the level of home care for elderly people is helping a Shipley-based care group to expand.