They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 20 vulnerable children.

The family of a girl who was left blind and suffering from severe brain damage when doctors in Bristol took more than 20 minutes to resuscitate her has won £4.1 million in compensation.

A former director of a care home charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice appeared in court today.

A Former Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Marines who now runs a Gloucester charity home for the mentally-ill has denied assaulting his deputy manager at a heated staff meeting.

Elderly care services could go from “bad to worse” unless the government provides more money and overhauls the system, a charity has warned.

The government says it will recruit 4,000 extra midwives in England by 2012 to relieve pressure on overstretched maternity services.