A FORMER care home which has been put up for sale by a council may still be developed as a home for the elderly.

Help is at hand for care workers and care managers looking to deliver the NHS End of Life Care programme in their care home.

A TRUSTED care home boss is behind bars today after fleecing a frail dementia sufferer out of more than £10,000.

Cumbria is again at the centre of a national childhood obesity debate, with some campaigners now calling for the fattest youngsters to be taken into care.

One in four charities that accepts donations has seen a fall in giving in the past year and one in 12 has had to make redundancies, a survey suggests.

A council in the north-west is to be referred to the Health Secretary over allegations that it unilaterally terminated contracts with care homes and re-offered the services at a lower price.

Charities have urged ministers to guarantee all their deposits held in Icelandic banks after it emerged that many millions of pounds of donations may be lost in the financial crisis.

A FORMER nurse died trapped in a wheelchair after social workers abandoned her, it was claimed yesterday.

ALMOST one girl a day is being referred to a special team set up to tackle sexual exploitation of young people, it has been revealed.

CHILDREN at risk of abuse or neglect in a Birmingham area with the worst child deprivation rate in Britain have not been seen by health visitors for THREE YEARS.