The body of a 67-year-old man has been found following a fire at a private nursing home in Hampshire. Emergency services were called to Kitnocks House in Curdridge, near Southampton, on Thursday night.

TWO young women filmed their sickening abuse of old people to entertain their friends. A court was told how the two former care home workers tormented their victims, both suffering from severe dementia, pinching them, pulling and contorting their faces, pushing a mobile phone at one woman’s face and putting their fingers in the mouth of another.

The deputy manager of a care home where a young resident choked to death on a ham sandwich was secretly doing another job at the time, a court was told today.

Reading borough councillors put aside their differences to agree a strategy to oppose the closure of the School of Health and Social Care at The University of Reading.

What social care will look like in the future, and how it will be funded – is one of the most pressing challenges in public policy.

The central heating at a care home was broken for 10 days just before half of its residents died, it emerged today.

A specialist fostering programme for children with challenging behaviour has saved councils money despite initial problems.

Two mental health hostels are to open in Croydon – but the councillor in charge of them is refusing to say where they will be. Margaret Mead insists the homes will not pose a threat to neighbours.

Children’s services departments are paying £100m a year over the odds on contracts with companies providing fostering and residential care services, it has been claimed.

A specialist centre which helps women recover from mental health problems caused by sexual abuse could be shut down.