Ministers told that councils will find it ‘exceptionally difficult to maintain a basic youth offending team’

West Sussex council plans to save £2.2m over the next year, and 9,000 vulnerable people will have their needs reassessed

Social workers and teachers in Middlesbrough failed to act upon the injuries suffered by a disabled child being abused at home.

Social care services provider Care UK has completed the sale of its Shropshire-based children’s residential services business to Keys Education and Care.

Council leaders have clashed over the outcome of a legal review into Wirral’s controversial care home closures.

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has launched a new website that aims to increase awareness and support for the charity’s campaigns.

Campaigners have lambasted Chancellor George Osborne for ignoring calls to protect the most vulnerable families who are set to feel the impact of changes to welfare provision next month.

Anthony Pinder, who had learning and behavioural issues, was physically restrained for 90 minutes by staff at the Old Vicarage nursing home in Stallinborough, on 1 October 2004.

Using everyday activities to build trust with children in care is a European approach being piloted here. Madeleine Bunting asks what social pedagogy can teach us

A NEW respite care centre is taking shape in Gorse Hill to offer people with learning disabilities and their carers opportunities to take short breaks.