The Care Quality Commission wants to recruit up to 200 health and social care professionals in order to achieve the required number of inspections by the end of the financial year

The Department of Health has written to the Directors of Adult Social Services in the Social Work Practice (SWP) pilot sites to signal the intention, subject to Parliamentary approval, to extend the period for which the SWPs may run.

People will need to take greater responsibility for the care of elderly relatives in the future, health minister Norman Lamb said.

As our society becomes increasingly digitalised, figures reveal a large proportion of those not online have a disability or are elderly

Dying people could end up in hospital sooner – and so cost taxpayers more – if cuts to social care services continue, a report warns today.

Funding for social work is worse today than it has been at any time in the last three decades. That’s the view of Nick Lovell, a BASW Council member and a social worker with 27 years experience in the field, who says that amidst the pressure of working in the face of such deep cuts social workers need to remind themselves of why they do their job and the difference they make to people’s lives.

The owners of a care home in Cornwall must pay £135,000 after a resident fell to his death from a faulty window.

Social workers have called for a new power of entry for local authorities to facilitate access to adults at risk of abuse or neglect.

Improving a children’s services department in the West Midlands could take another year, a council said.

MITIE has moved into the expanding outsourced health and social care sector with the £111m acquisition of home care provider Enara.