A quarter of vulnerable disabled people in care homes are at risk of being shut up in rooms or held down in arm-locks because staff do not know the rules on restraint, a damning official report has found.

INSPECTORS have withdrawn an improvement notice over safeguarding children’s services in Worcestershire after hailing the turnaround as “rapid”.

A NEW care service for older people that has opened in Dover will create 30 jobs across the district and another ten in Canterbury.

Treatments rationed and waiting times rising as some managers say NHS finances are the worst they have experienced

A CHILDREN’S charity received more reports of serious neglect in Croydon than anywhere else in London.

BASW has increased the funding it provides for social workers facing financial difficulty, as evidence grows that more and more hard-up professionals are falling into debt.

Labour councillor labels Westminster ‘meanest council in Britain’ for cuts to adult services

Training care home staff to properly help dementia sufferers could reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs by up to 50%, research suggests.

It was promised last autumn. Then it was the spring. Publication slipped until June and now we are told there will be nothing on government proposals to reform the funding of adult social care in England until at least July.

The care minister has shown a “complete lack of respect” for pensioners by backing out of attending the Pensioners’ Parliament, say the National Pensioners Convention.