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.

Care services minister Paul Burstow admitted that personal budgets were not suitable for all people but said the government wanted to increase the take-up of them “significantly”.

A charity has warned care funding is not enough to cope with an ageing society as BBC-commissioned research suggests half of residents in some areas will be aged 50 plus by 2029.

Some councils in England fear budget pressures will hit care services which help elderly and vulnerable adults live at home, a BBC survey has found.

FIVE men will spend a total of 32-and-a-half years behind bars after being found guilty of a raft of sex abuse offences against girls as young as 13.

Charities say parents receive little official support to cope with problems that emerge from adopting an abused child

Scientists in Bristol are developing robots to provide care and companionship for elderly people. It is an attempt to address the issue of who will care for Britain’s increasingly ageing population.

Meeting the challenge of co-production in adult social care can seem both essential and impossible. We look at how the sector can move to a “no decisions about me, without me” approach

Directors of children’s services have a “moral imperative” to help other councils improve their provision, to fill the gap left by less national and regional improvement support, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.