LIFELINE health services in Knutsford are expected to close after council bosses approved plans to ‘improve’ adult social care.

A planning application has been submitted for a new £6m development in the East Sussex resort of Seaford.

The Centre for Deaf People in Bristol is to lose its funding from the city council. The authority says the centre, which has been based in the city for 125 years, does not provide a good quality service.

Four members of staff from Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s children’s services have been praised following the recent Ofsted inspection.

Responding to reports this morning about four children in Dundee allegedly removed from their parents because of concerns over obesity, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has asked the media to show greater confidence in social workers and to properly inform the public about the complex and independent legal processes that are followed before any decision to take a child into care is made.

Convictions for sex offences against children under 16 have increased by almost 60 per cent in six years, it has emerged.

BOSSES at a Hampshire nursing home have been ordered to urgently improve standards or risk being shut down.

A CARE home manager has been jailed for a year after stealing from residents in what a judge described as a “monstrous breach of trust”.

The Children’s Legal Centre and children’s charity Coram have amalgamated as from 1 September. The merger is intended to unite Coram’s social-work led expertise and extensive reach to schools with the legal experience of the Children’s Legal Centre in promoting the rights of children throughout the UK and beyond.

Almost two in five Europeans suffer from a mental disorder, with the most common being anxiety, insomnia and depression, according to new research.