A senior official has spoken of the “parental responsibility” he feels towards the growing number of vulnerable children being smuggled through Kent ports from countries such as Afghanistan.
 

The care system is “catastrophic” for the prospects of abused or neglected children and needs a “radical overhaul”, an influential group of MPs said.
 

The deputy manager of a north London care home where a young resident choked to death on a ham sandwich will be sentenced for breaching her health and safety duty.

CARE home operator Rotherham Healthcare, has started work on a 60-bed specialist home in a deal funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Healthcare team.

In the first part of our series on the care system, Amelia Gentleman looks at how young people are let down by the state’s inability to deliver social justice.

A CRUMBLING former council-run children’s care home is to be demolished and replaced with two new buildings.

A nurse who became a “whistleblower” by secretly filming the neglect of elderly patients for a television documentary was yesterday struck off.

Workers suspended from Lancashire County Council over an alleged anti-Semitic e-mail have vowed to fight to keep their jobs.

Potentially incompetent or dangerous social workers are able to carry on working with vulnerable people because councils fail to report misconduct, the industry watchdog has warned.

ELDERLY campaigners have demanded an urgent investigation into alleged failures in York’s home-care services.