A public consultation is to be held over the future of two of Sheffield’s three dementia support centres.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined £120,000 for sending emails about a child protection case to the wrong person.

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.

Ed Miliband is expected to announce he is launching a mental health taskforce today and call for more integration between health and social care.

The Winterbourne View scandal has shown the need for a new offence of “corporate wilful neglect” to prosecute care home-owners for allowing abuse to go on behind closed doors, the former care minister has said.

In the wake of the Jimmy Savile case and other ‘household names’ being investigated for alleged sexual abuse, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has said that he wants the brightest graduates to go into social services.

TWENTY-FIVE new social workers will be recruited by Worcestershire County Council as part of the biggest ever shake-up of children’s services.

FORMAL complaints about the standard of care provided to vulnerable and elderly residents have increased by seven per cent in a year – but the true number of concerns is still likely to be “much higher.”