Elderly people in rural areas are at risk because the care system to look after them in their own homes is “at breaking point”.

Services to protect and care for children in Reading are only reaching minimum standards, according to Government inspectors.

Elderly residents at Littleport Grange nursing and residential home, in Littleport, are to be moved out after the home failed to improve after receiving a formal warning from health and social care watchdog the Care Quality Commission.

Virgin care has signed a £500 million contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community health services in south west and north west Surrey, which includes Walton and Weybridge, from 2012 to 2017.

Work on a new centre for terminally-ill people has begun at a hospital which serves Norfolk and north Suffolk.

The forthcoming social care white paper should give communities a say in their services, says Victor Adebowale

Services for elderly, disabled and homeless people are to be hit by a council budget cut of almost £5m.

The debate led by Warrington Borough Council, will look for residents views on how social care needs to change to help more people live independent lives in their own homes.

Benefit rule changes to allow more care leavers to claim income support and housing benefits while they study do not go far enough, Catch 22’s National Care Advisory Service (NCAS) has warned.

Older people’s charity Age UK have called on the Government to act quickly on care reform, claiming the system is already in crisis due to the effects of spiralling costs and demand.