A lack of council funding is forcing home care providers for the elderly to find ways to avoid paying staff minimum wages, the head of the Low Pay Commission has

Some 340,000 elderly and disabled people will receive no assistance towards care costs, experts warn Hundreds of thousands of frail elderly and disabled people who need help with basic tasks

The Department of Health has responded to disability charity Leonard Cheshire’s campaign to end 15 minute home care visits. In response to Leonard Cheshire’s campaign, the Department of Health said

Women taking part in a pilot of the government’s benefit cap have been forced to stay with violent partners and even driven to attempt suicide, researchers have found. A report

Bristol City Council did not act quickly enough to rehouse a girl after being informed that her foster carer was suspected of downloading child abuse images, a review has found.

SHE was the top politician who was due to decide the fate of four care homes across Hampshire. But county councillor Anna McNair Scott has resigned as Hampshire’s adult care

A coroner’s inquest has found 19 elderly patients died amid ‘institutionalised’ abuse and that, in the case of five of them, neglect was a contributing factor in their deaths. Speaking

Rainbow Rooms UK, which supports gay people in Wiltshire, goes into liquidation after financial and reputational damage incurred by the allegation A Wiltshire-based charity that supported lesbian, gay and bisexual

A major campaign to attract at least 50 new and experienced children’s social workers to Norfolk has been launched today. Norfolk County Council’s ‘Better futures all round’ campaign follows an

Carers Trust with Crossroads Care Schemes are working in partnership with the MS Society to offer supported holidays for people with MS and their carers who wish to holiday in