Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has told home care companies they can expect new checks, in order to make sure service users are having enough carer-time allocated to cover

Social services have been warned to watch out for couples returning from Africa with “miracle babies” as they could be a cover for trafficking. Child protection organisations Cafcass, ADCS and

Council leaders have warned that little can be done to improve the quality of home care services unless their finances are put on a more sustainable footing. Care minister Norman

A care home in Radlett, Hertfordshire, has received a formal warning after an inspection revealed a catalogue of failures, including a lack of hygiene and staff ignoring elderly residents’ requests

Doncaster Council is offering social work team managers extra bonuses of up to £6,000 for working in its troubled children’s services department. The council is attracting social workers, particularly managers,

Leicester City Council will be closing and selling off its eight elderly people’s care homes over the next three years. The council said it will be changing the way it

One in seven councils in England is failing vulnerable children with “inadequate” child protection services, according to a damning report. There are 20 local authorities where Ofsted says standards are

Organised criminal networks operating in Asia are offering to rape children ‘on demand’ for people who are willing to pay to watch such child abuse, according to a report by

The mental health service in England is in crisis and unsafe, says one of the country’s leading psychiatrists. Dr Martin Baggaley, medical director of the South London and Maudsley NHS

The author of the second report into the case of Baby P is facing questions tonight over his role as chair of Haringey’s Local Safeguarding Children’s Board after apologising for