A leading provider of health and social care has acquired a local supported living service for adults with learning disabilities in Lancashire.

NURSES’ leaders have heavily criticised proposals to make more than 700 health and social care workers redundant and re-employ them on new contracts with “worse terms and conditions”.

Private equity-backed Four Seasons Health Care has acquired Northampton-headquartered Optimum Care, which operates 17 care home across the UK. The homes operate under the Avery brand name.

The films explore possible responses to a range of scenarios, such as how to handle people who are verbally aggressive, by
Wendy Weal

Children’s charity says situation facing young people in UK is expected to worsen as cuts threaten to ‘sideline’ a generation

The government must give a “swift assurance” that the introduction of Universal Credit will not cause a rise in benefit fraud, MPs have said.

As reported instances jump 22%, local authorities have a big task – from ensuring a collaborative system operates so signs of abuse are spotted to providing ‘safe houses’ and counselling

The ‘bedroom tax’ does little for either benefits claimants or the public purse and is likely to become the poll tax of 2013, by Dr Tom Manion

As Sandwell council becomes the latest local authority to receive an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating for its ability to protect children, BASW has said that the local authority is not an isolated case and the root of this national problem lies in known workplace issues being ignored.

A hospice in Bury St Edmunds has been awarded more than £325,000 to turn a Haverhill building into a community outreach centre.