SERVICES to the elderly could be targeted as Torbay Care Trust tries to bring a projected £1.9million overspend under control.

92% of the older people surveyed said they knew little or nothing about the government’s new scheme to introduce personal budgets for social care

A CHILDREN’S services boss who was suspended in the aftermath of the murder of a toddler has launched a counter attack against a town hall chief.

A man who sexually abused a minor (referred to as ‘Ms A’) has been removed from the Social Care Register by an independent committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

A new qualification to enter the children’s workforce is under development, after concerns from childcare employers that standards had been set too high.

NEW homes are being found for more than 20 people, some with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, after a care centre in Burnley announced it is closing.

Tracey Connelly, the mother of Baby P, has given up on her appeal for a more lenient prison sentence over her role in torturing her toddler son.

ABOUT 150 vacancies will be on offer at a major jobs fair taking place in Derby tomorrow for people looking to work in the care sector.

A SHOPAHOLIC charity boss has been struck off the social care register after stealing almost £53,000 to spend on clothes and shoes.

Campaigners have called for a strategy to tackle the ‘woeful’ number of people with autism in unemployment, claiming the Government and Jobcentre Plus have ‘condemned’ people with the condition to a life of financial hardship.