The General Social Care Council has welcomed the DoH and Comic Relief report ‘UK Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People’. The report said that 13% of older people were mistreated by care workers in the past year and ‘relatively little mistreatment was carried out by care workers’ compared with mistreatment by partners and family members.

Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being subjected to appalling abuse in their own homes, according to a report today.

Gordon Brown’s flagship tax credits programme “brutally discriminates” against two-parent families and actively discourages single parents from forming stable relationships, a damning report says today.

Childcare nurseries must open at weekends and in the evenings to cater for the demands of modern working life, according to a government-backed survey of parents.

A man with severe learning difficulties was imprisoned, tortured and killed after he was falsely accused of being a paedophile, a court was told.

Community and racial tensions are now more likely to overheat in the rural towns and villages of the east of England than in the previously riot-hit northern mill towns of Burnley or Oldham, a government report will warn today.

Parents who use background information disclosed to them by police to harass sex offenders or fuel vigilante action will face prosecution for incitement, senior police officers warned yesterday.