No action will be taken by police after an initial investigation into conditions at a Northamptonshire care home concludes.

CARE home workers are celebrating today after successfully claiming they were forced from their jobs. The 14 staff had all worked at The Dales Rest Home in West Kirby until a few days after it was sold to a new owner.

Dangerously overweight children will be taken into care if the obesity epidemic continues, council chiefs warned yesterday.

The “postcode lottery” that means cancer patients miss out on new drugs is the fault of local health trusts, the head of Nice, the NHS drug watchdog, has said.

Southern Cross, Britain’s largest operator of nursing homes, said yesterday earnings were running 8% better than last year, but admitted that it had still failed to resolve its long-term funding issues.

A private nursing home has been closed down by a social care watchdog after three snap inspections found residents were being “put at serious risk”.

An “old boy network” of officials is deliberately obstructing police investigating decades of alleged abuse at care homes in Jersey, according to the police officer who spearheaded the inquiry.
 

CARERS who help Liverpool’s most vulnerable people will have their efforts officially recognised for the first time.

FORMER care home workers claim they were forced out of their jobs when abuse allegations were reported to the authorities.

A new mental health hospital is set to be built in Lincolnshire after planners gave it the green light.