AN angry daughter has spoken of how she felt sick to her stomach when told her dementia sufferer mum had been the target for humiliating abuse at a care home.

Four women have won compensation claims after suffering years of abuse in a care home. The women all spent a significant period of time at Newfield House care home in Foleshill, Coventry.

Social workers are almost unanimous in the view that any cuts to social work services would leave already massively understaffed child protection teams less able to keep vulnerable young people safe from harm.

THE boss leading moves to axe council day centres says it would help people become less and not more isolated. Buckinghamshire County Council’s Rita Lally is heading up plans to axe funding from 22 day centres and replace them with two or three large and two small facilities.

An inquest jury has said failings by the Prison Service and Essex Social Services contributed to an 18-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker’s suicide.

Salford council’s beleaguered children’s services has been branded ‘inadequate’ for the second time in four years. The ranking is the lowest a local authority can get.

The government has written to all ContactPoint projects confirming that “the idea of a single national IT database for all children has gone for good”.

The government has appointed a new chief executive and three commissioners to lead a council which was criticised over the deaths of seven children.

Esther Rantzen and the NSPCC have been cleared of breaking charity rules after a complaint was made alleging money from the child protection charity was going towards the Luton South independent candidate’s election campaign.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has given his strongest indication yet that Ofsted will no longer inspect children’s social care.