Caring for Britain’s growing elderly population could cost up to £106bn a year, equivalent to paying for a second NHS, according to research from the Policy Exchange thinktank.

The body which represents adult social services directors has announced major changes to better align with the Coalition Government’s policy agenda.

More than two years after Khyra Ishaq’s protracted and horrific starvation, Birmingham City Council is still failing to provide adequate protection to vulnerable children, according to safeguarding watchdogs.

Funding withdrawn after Hampshire Coalition of Disabled People refused to carry out Criminal Records Bureau checks on its chief executive

The Director of Children’s Social Care at Birmingham City Council says he will ask for more money for the department if it is needed.

An increasing ageing population will see the number of Britons who are deafblind increase by 60% over the next two decades, according to charity Sense.

Productivity of public services dipped sharply in 2008 despite a spurt of government spending in Gordon Brown’s first full year as prime minister, first official estimates have suggested.

GOVERNMENT funding cuts could force reductions of more than £17 million from a council’s social care and community services.

North Yorkshire County Council is to slash its children and young people’s budget by £14m over the next three years.

Attempts by teachers, police and social workers to investigate suspicions that Khyra Ishaq and other children in the care of Angela Gordon and her partner were suffering neglect and abuse were thwarted by a sustained campaign of intimidation and lack of co-operation by Gordon, the serious case review revealed.