A South Yorkshire residential home for children with severe disabilities will close in the autumn.

Andrew Lansley had indicated government would ignore recommendations on funding of care and support

A care home in Worcestershire is to close after administrators could not find a buyer for it. The Manor House Nursing Home in Stourport went into administration in June after failing a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.

Parts of the country have a disproportionate numbers of care homes, with local authorities simply accepting what the market offers, by Colin Cram

Reforms could be affordable if the government took the difficult decisions about which households contribute to a new system, by James Lloyd

A grieving mother has told how it took social services six days to inform her of her disabled son’s death.

Trafford MBC and public services provider Amey have announced plans to set up a new social care trading company.

ATTEMPTS to force a U-turn by city leaders on controversial cuts to social care which will hit almost 200 people in York have failed.

Following the Winterbourne View serious case review, BASW is urging the government to impose statutory regulation on the employment of care staff, so that the proposed Code of Conduct can be properly enforced.

King’s Fund says if all PCTs worked to best standards, £462m could be saved with cut of 2.3m overnight hospital stays