Michael Ezenagu and 10 other former care home staff to be sentenced for abusing patients with learning disabilities

A protest has taken place against a council’s decision to refuse plans for a new care facility in the Cotswolds.

Sixteen community-led projects that tackle mental health discrimination have received funding totalling £533,600 from the Time to Change programme.

The MS Society and Carers Trust have joined forces in a new pilot project to offer supported short breaks to people with MS and their families.

Bright, beautiful and ambitious, Warrington teenager Shafilea Ahmed wanted to be a barrister. The only chance she got to appear in court was as a murder victim.

Ten charities and government bodies have joined forces to invest £19m to establish four e-health research centres across the UK to make better use of data.

For more than 60 years, social care has been overshadowed by its more glamorous sister, the NHS. Where the NHS is universal, comprehensive and adored, social care is often confusing, disjointed and unloved – little more than a safety net. It is time for this to change. And one of the biggest shifts must be about integration. By By Paul Burstow MP

A senior judge has ordered Merton Council to change its “unlawful” policy of underpaying the relatives of vulnerable children who are not given the same support as foster parents.

Channel 4’s Undercover Boss gave care workers a chance to speak on their own behalf – and we need to listen to them, by John Kennedy

BASW is ‘optimistic’ about the future of social worker registration following today’s move of regulation of social workers in England from the General Social Care Council to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), but will continue to campaign for registration to be extended to student social workers, and for the right of social workers to stand up to employers against unethical practice.