Campaigners have claimed Britain’s biggest care home operators have combined debts of more than £4.5bn.

Professional body to tell Lords committee that political stereotyping has hampered efforts to rehome vulnerable children

Surrey County Council has finished installing social care staff in the offices of all 11 of the borough and district councils, it has been announced.

Police are investigating an elderly care home in Nottingham which closed after having its council contract suspended.

PARENTS of children with severe special needs are “at breaking point” because their funding has been cut, an MP has warned.

A CARE home where an 87-year-old woman fell to her death from the roof has been exonerated by a coroner. Dolly Cook, who had dementia, often wandered at night at the Highfield House residential home in Newent.

The income  of the NSPCC fell by £12.9m in the last financial year, its latest accounts show. The children’s charity’s annual report shows its income fell to £135.7m in 2011/12 from £148.6m in 2010/11 – a drop of 8.7 per cent.

A FORMER care home in York is to be turned into “health and social care hub” in a million-pound redevelopment.

ANTI-CUTS campaigners left a debate on funding for adult care services they had forced disappointed – with some in tears.

The doors of a popular care home in Woodley closed for good on Friday, despite pleas to keep it open. For 48 years Fosters care home provided 24-hour accommodation and care for the frail, elderly and those with dementia, but was in need of a major refurbishment.