Council spending on education and children’s social services in the Bath area will need to be cut by £3.4 million over the next three years.

Organisations representing the elderly welcomed the pledges on social care featured in the Queen’s speech today, but said the government should have gone further in instigating overdue reform of the widely-derided existing system.

Fears have been expressed about other services that may be axed after a County Hall u-turn on a planned cut to subsidies for college bus passes.

The Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb, has hit out at Gordon Brown and David Cameron over the social care bill.

Eighteen elderly residents will have to find a new home before Christmas, as a Camberwell care home will shut due to the recession.

A coroner investigating the death of a baby girl who was suffocated by her sleeping dad has slammed social services for ignoring health staff advice and allowing her to go home with her heroin addict parents.

THE former boss of a council youth chief who claims she was bullied and harassed out of a job has denied claims he wanted to get rid of her.

A new report, ‘Cutting the Cost’, has found that people with dementia – who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds – cost the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year, occupying hospital beds for significantly longer periods than other patients.

A COUPLE posing as social workers today tricked their way into a house. Police have issued a warning to householders to check identification and call the relevant organisation if in any doubt.

The government’s plan to offer the most vulnerable people free social care in their own homes in England has been met with a cool response.