Care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis is falling “catastrophically short”, a report has found.

Elaine Kerr, chief executive of the social care charity, said the fine was disproportionate, but the charity has paid it

Up to 100 jobs could be cut at East Sussex County Council under plans to save £60m over three years.

Devon’s three biggest councils have overspent by about £9m on services for vulnerable children and adults.

Private companies which get public money to run care homes will be made “corporately accountable” for poor standards, the Care Services minister has pledged.

ONE in 10 social services workers in Wirral is in dispute with the council, according to new figures.

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has again warned social workers in England that they must re-register before 30 November or face being unable to practise using the title ‘social worker’.

Proposal by the Building Trust could see sheds turned into prefab homes in London. But would this only exacerbate existing problems in deprived areas?

Companies linked to Southern Cross Healthcare could become responsibility of bank, which lent to them in 2007

Analysis of the Labour Force Survey finds the number of employees in the voluntary sector fell by 4,000 between March and June