A High Court judge who condemned Nottingham City Council for unlawfully taking a teenage mother’s newborn baby from her has called for an urgent review of training and management of social workers and hospital staff.

Charities are being warned they could lose more than £90m a year when the new lower income tax rate is introduced next month. The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) says the

Every day, over a million working parents use childminders and private nurseries, believing their babies are in hands of highly qualified, strictly regulated and genuine caring people.

Most people are unaware of the funding that they may or may not be entitled to in order to pay for a care home and social care when they are elderly, an expert claims.

A staff nurse who murdered four elderly patients with lethal injections of insulin was today jailed for life and told he would serve a minimum of 30 years.

The investigation into child abuse at Jersey children’s homes is likely to spread to Guernsey after an alleged victim said he was attacked by staff of residential homes on both Channel Islands.
 

THE facilities provided on a Trafford elderly rehabilitation ward are sub-standard and could create infection risks – according to the nurses who work there.

Elderly people can benefit from care workers coming to visit them in the community, new analysis shows.

Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced plans devised by the government which could see elderly married couples allowed to live together if they have to go into a care home.

TRAFFORD Council has highlighted six priority areas in its latest budget – and the areas it needs to cut back on to achieve them.