Fostering and adoption agencies are to face tougher inspections under measures being proposed by Ofsted. Ofsted proposing to slash the notice period for inspections to 10 days

The crisis facing the country’s biggest care homes company was caused by “scandalous financial engineering”, a leading union has claimed.

The council’s procurement of a new integrated children’s system is part of a long term plan to link up databases

Senior staff at Kent County Council have been accused of allowing social workers to take the blame for failings in the child protection service.

The residential hospital where vulnerable patients were bullied and abused by their carers is owned by a secretive Swiss private equity company backed two of Ireland’s richest businessmen.

Councils need to speed up improvements to adult social care services to meet future demands, according to a report from the Audit Commission, published today.

The Department of Health has committed £6 million in funding to support health and social care-related projects in the voluntary sector.

Directors of children’s services have called for the government to clarify the future of their role, in light of the Baby P Appeal Court case and many councils’ plans to merge the post with others.

The Government has ordered an urgent review into the “inhumane” abuse of people with learning disabilities at a residential hospital.

Frail elderly people will be left to suffer unless David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband can put aside their political differences to agree urgent reforms to the care system, an alliance of charities, think tanks and councils warns today.