The home support given to people with dementia and their carers is an “absolute travesty”, a charity says.

Nearly one in three prison officers working with vulnerable young offenders in custody have not completed training on safeguarding and assessing vulnerability, an investigation by CYP Now has found.

Wirral Mencap has joined forces with mental health organisation Family Tree in a bid to halt the closure of two Wirral care homes.

The much-anticipated Health and Social Care Bill was published on Wednesday. Although it contains few surprises, the sheer size of the document, and the monumental changes within it, cannot fail to invoke strong feelings and opinions, and, of course, many questions.

In the second week of a ten-week long campaign, UNISON is calling on them to make sure social workers can get time off in lieu (TOIL) or be paid for working additional hours.

Jobcentre Plus and A&R Training Services Ltd will bring together social care employers with vacancies in residential or domiciliary care in the Wakefield area for a social care jobs fair on January 26.

HUNDREDS of elderly people face reductions in their home care help as Torbay Care Trust attempts to cut £2million from its budget next year.

Delays in young children’s ability to speak and listen properly are leaving them struggling to learn to read and write, Ofsted has warned.

TWO carers have been charged following the death of a doting great grandma at a Tyneside care home.

A total of 376 posts in children’s services are set to be axed at Hampshire County Council as the authority prepares to make savings of £55m this year.