Sub-standard social services for children are threatening to damage Birmingham’s reputation, city council leader Mike Whitby has admitted.

Legendary 1960’s charity Release is Britain’s only specialist provider of legal advice to drug users. But can it survive in the age of spending cuts and “big society”?

Around one in five young carers finds the Christmas period harder than the rest of the year because of a reduction in support services, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has found.

UNIONS are making a last-ditch attempt to force a delay on a decision to privatise part of the social care network for elderly people in York.

Public libraries and leisure services are going to be hit hardest by cuts to local authority budgets, with more than 25 per cent of councils planning large scale reductions to these budgets over the next twelve months, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).

Annual children’s services ratings from Ofsted are to be abolished, children’s minister Tim Loughton has announced.

ADULT social care in Dorset is set to take a hit as the county council plans to cut £7.5million from the service’s budget.

The mother of abused toddler Baby P wished social services would “back off and leave her alone”, an interview filmed four months before he died has revealed.

A CARE home worker has appeared before magistrates accused of mistreating nine mentally-ill residents.

THE manageress of a Hampshire care home wept as she was spared an immediate prison sentence for stealing about £5,000 from patients.