A SOCIAL worker who failed to launch an inquiry when a teenager told her she was being abused has won an appeal against a ban.

Drug or alcohol abuse among children under the age of 15 is a cause and not an effect of a host of health and social problems, research has suggested.

For some, the internet is merely a hiding place — a web of secret corridors where all manner of shameful deeds unfold. But the police never expected that it might become a strategic platform where two groups of society’s outcasts, terrorists and child sex abusers, could meet to exchange operational secrets.

One in four charities that accepts donations has seen a fall in giving in the past year and one in 12 has had to make redundancies, a survey suggests.

A council in the north-west is to be referred to the Health Secretary over allegations that it unilaterally terminated contracts with care homes and re-offered the services at a lower price.

A FORMER care home which has been put up for sale by a council may still be developed as a home for the elderly.

Help is at hand for care workers and care managers looking to deliver the NHS End of Life Care programme in their care home.

A TRUSTED care home boss is behind bars today after fleecing a frail dementia sufferer out of more than £10,000.

Cumbria is again at the centre of a national childhood obesity debate, with some campaigners now calling for the fattest youngsters to be taken into care.

Charities have urged ministers to guarantee all their deposits held in Icelandic banks after it emerged that many millions of pounds of donations may be lost in the financial crisis.