PENSIONERS at nine Coventry and Warwickshire care homes face being made homeless if the firm that runs them cannot solve its financial problems, a leading union has warned.

WIRRAL council has backed down from part of its care home closure plans just days before a court hearing challenging the proposals.

On World Social Work Day we need to think about the reasons we became social workers and how we can create a profession in which our children want to work

ABOUT 31,000 elderly people could be made homeless after a care home provider was plunged into fresh chaos.

Training body Skills for Justice has announced plans to boost the profile of independent sexual violence advisers.

Campaigners warn that cuts to council funding will reduce services for children with special needs

Norfolk County Council’s mental health home support team were told this week the service would be wound up by September, with the loss of 23 jobs.

About 700 “least needy” vulnerable adults in Calderdale will lose their free care as the council lifts its social care threshold from those with “low” needs to those with “moderate” ratings.

Barnardo’s has agreed to run family welfare services at the government’s planned pre-departure accommodation centre for failed asylum seekers.

Barnardo’s and Action for Children are stepping up efforts to secure a government-funded savings account for children in care.