The King’s Fund has set up a commission to consider the future of health and social care. Chaired by economist Kate Barker, a former member of the Bank of England’s

Bupa has announced that Oakhurst Grange Nursing Home is to close. Staff at the home in Goffs Park Road, Southgate, will work with the local adult social services and NHS

Chief executive insists the shortfall has been tackled after a report revealed more than 60 per cent of positions in its social services department were empty in the autumn Vulnerable

NEW figures reveal there has been a rise in the number of safeguarding referrals for vulnerable adults claiming to have been abused. Hartlepool Borough Council has produced the annual figures

A union has called for the “myth” that the private sector can run the public services “more effectively” to be “exploded”. It comes in the wake of residents being removed

Up to 100 new full and part-time jobs are to be created in East Yorkshire at a new care home being developed with financial support from Yorkshire Bank. Construction work

Huge problems are building up in social services departments because of staff shortages and “impossibly high” child protection caseloads, a union has warned. Unison said a survey of 3,000 social

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Kent County Council is giving a £380,000 boost to battle isolation and loneliness among elderly people. The cash will be used to develop volunteer befriending services across the county to

Plan represents attempt to assess whether elderly people are being failed by social care system Death rates in nursing homes are to be monitored by the health regulator in an