A £5 million state-of-the-art resource centre for older people opened in Norwich this week.

Havering Council has blacklisted a Christian care home after accusations that a homosexual man was turned away because of his sexuality.

The number of children being taken into care has rocketed in the past year, figures have revealed. Social Services in Rochdale took 428 children into care in just five months in 2008, more than double the amount from 2007.

The number of children suffering violent abuse in Coventry has more than doubled in a year, we can reveal. A total of 234 children are on the council’s protection register having suffered abuse and neglect at home, figures obtained by us show.

Public confidence in social workers’ abilities to protect vulnerable children has been rocked bv the case of Baby P.

Safeguards to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse are an unlawful infringement of the human rights of staff working in the NHS and social care, five law lords ruled yesterday in a test case brought by the Royal College of Nursing.