Councils are commissioning better adult social care services, the Care Quality Commission said today.

Leicestershire County Council has defended its adult care services after complaints more than doubled.

Warwickshire County Council social care could be left £30m worse off due to government funding cuts, it claimed.

Derbyshire County Council’s children’s services team has been praised by Ofsted for the quality of its assessments for disabled children and fast response to child protection concerns.

Plans to build a new care home in a Norfolk village could bring about 100 new jobs to the area. A developer has applied for outline planning permission for an 80-bed building in Hoveton, near Norwich.

More than half of local authorities in England fear budget pressures will affect care services that help elderly people and adults with disabilities to live at home, according to a new survey.

The number of complaints about adult social care in Kent has more than doubled in the past five years.

More than three quarters of people are oblivious to how much social care could cost them in the future and are not making financial plans as a result, a survey has revealed.

The man given the task of deciding how social care in England should be funded says the status quo “is not an option”.

A SOCIAL worker from Broadstairs has been jailed for four years after admitting sexually abusing a girl.