A SIGNIFICANT number of vulnerable children in Waltham Forest have been put at risk due to council failures, a damning report has found.

Social workers in Southampton have voted to extend their strike action over cuts to council staff pay.

CAMPAIGNERS have described the closure of two day care centres in New Malden as a ‘travesty of justice’.

BUDGET cuts could mean restricting social care for adults in Torbay to critical cases only, councillors have been told.

Nottinghamshire County Council and NHS Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County are set to invest an extra £18.8m on services to help older people live safely in their own homes. The two-year investment will also reduce the need for much greater spending on costly, long-term residential and hospital care.

Police and a care quality watchdog are investigating the running of a former home for dementia sufferers.

A bid by the Department for Education and Haringey Council to overturn a ruling that former social services chief Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly dismissed following the Baby P tragedy has failed.

VICTIMS of rape or sexual assault in Scarborough will receive improved support and advice in the future.

A BIRKENHEAD care home for adults with learning disabilities failed to fully comply with “essential standards of quality and safety”, according to a social care watchdog.

Campaigners who opposed the closure of a care home for the elderly in Kent have said they want to take it over and run it themselves.