FAMILY life for disabled people could reach crisis point if funding for adult social care is cut. After the Examiner revealed that Kirklees Council were consulting 10,000 people and organisations over cuts to funding for disabled adults, residents have got in touch to call for support.

Inflexible and stressful jobs are leaving parents racked with guilt and increasingly distant from their children, according to a Demos report.

Projects that help to keep women offenders out of prison unlikely to receive continued funding from the Ministry of Justice

A COUNCIL facing cutbacks of more than £100m has come under fire for staffing an empty care home.

A CONSULTATION into the future of elderly people’s homes has been branded a “sham” after county councillors backed controversial plans to privatise services, despite admitting the “vast majority” of people asked opposed them.

THE only charity providing therapy for Merseyside’s paedophile victims is facing closure because of funding problems.

A TODDLER who died from horrific injuries in Birmingham was on the at-risk register and was seen by social workers just days before his death.

Charities have warned that Government cuts to funds that help disabled people get around will take those affected “back to the dark ages”.

A blanket ban on the use of dangerous restraint techniques should be applied to all children’s settings, an MP has said.

Even in the good years, when public money was plentiful, care for the elderly was a Cinderella service: under-funded, under-regulated and under-loved. Now in times of austerity things are about to get much worse.