A serious case review has found that opportunities were missed to help four-year-old Daniel Pelka, who was murdered by his mother and her partner in Coventry. It said Daniel was

Too many people who use community mental health services are not being involved in decisions about their own care. A major national  survey of more than 13,000 people who use

A consultation has been launched to look at new ways of funding placements for social work students. A consultation has been launched to look at new ways of funding placements

Older people who want to downsize their homes should be helped to do so, “freeing up” billions of pounds of housing stock, a think tank says. Those interested in downsizing

Crime victims aren’t getting the same level of support as offenders, the Victims’ Commissioner told justice workers in Cumbria. Baroness Helen Newlove made a passionate plea for the various agencies

An inquest into 19 unexplained deaths at a Sussex care home has heard claims that a woman was left with a broken bone, medication was not given and another woman

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has accused Ofsted of unfairly downgrading children’s centres, after latest inspection figures showed more than half are failing or require improvement. Leitch fears that Ofsted is

English councils referred 112,000 cases of alleged abuse against vulnerable adults for investigation in 2012-13 provisional figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show. This is a

David Pearson of Nottinghamshire County Council has been elected as the new vice-president of the Association for Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS.) In his new role he will become

Former care minister Paul Burstow has called for the creation of an older people’s commissioner in England to represent the views of pensioners to government and encourage ministers to do