A NEW home care service for adults with personal care needs is set to roll out from next Monday in Barnet. Housing 21 has been awarded a five-year contract by Barnet Council which aims to promote independence for these adults.

Harrow has become the first council in the UK to launch an ‘Amazon-style’ website where residents who receive care can shop online for support and leisure services.

Surrey Safeguarding Children Board is working to put new arrangements in place to provide therapeutic support for abused children following the announcement that children’s charity NSPCC is to close its counselling and witness protection centre in Leatherhead.

PENSIONERS from a housing scheme have urged Town Hall bosses not to axe their full-time carers. The Maxton House residents held a protest outside Farnworth Town Hall yesterday before attending a Bolton Council drop-in session about changes to sheltered housing across the borough.

A government pilot aiming to give families of disabled children control over money allocated to them struggled to get funding from education sources, according to an evaluation.

ONE in five people living in West Berkshire will be aged 65 or over in 20 years’ time, Government figures show.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save three care homes in South Tyneside have accused council bosses of “demoralising” workers facing the axe.

Council chiefs have dramatically scaled down a service which previously gave disabled Cumbrians vital equipment to help them live safely and independently.

The father of a 14-year-old boy from Walton has told a court he pleaded with social services to get his son “out of his hair”.

Communication channels between local safeguarding children boards (LSCB) and partner agencies – particularly doctors and independent health care organisations – are “relatively weak”, according to a new report.