Five council-run residential care homes in Leeds have been recommended to close. A city council report proposes the closure of Kirkland House, Westholme, and Grange Court, with Spring Gardens and Knowle Manor to shut once new homes have been built in Morley and Otley.

The government has announced that 37 councils will receive a share of £6m to develop and expand intensive support for vulnerable families and foster carers.

A CARE company has folded leaving elderly and vulnerable people without carers. KDAC has now been liquidated after becoming insolvent.

Standards in mental health care in Wiltshire have improved again according to a recent survey.

In a competition organised jointly by the Design Council and the Department of Health, a ‘moneypot’ of £360,000, plus unprecedented access to expert support and advice, is available to individuals or organisations with a good idea that will help people with dementia.

A parliamentary inquiry into child safety on the internet has been launched by a group of 60 MPs.

Ofsted inspectors have praised Hampshire County Council’s safeguarding and looked-after children services.

Promises of radical change have been common currency during the past decade, but despite the constant departure and arrival of chief officers and senior managers all promising to make a difference, the standard of care for vulnerable children in Birmingham is still officially classified as failing.

A NORTH Somerset care home has been told to make major changes after an inspection revealed it was understaffed and several of its patients were malnourished.

A CARE worker used a mentally handicapped patient’s shoe to hit her in the face, a court has heard.