A 15-year-old girl in care was allegedly involved in having sex and taking drugs with men linked to loyalist paramilitaries, the High Court has heard.

A Northern Ireland couple are under police investigation after the regulator found significant financial abuse of six vulnerable adults in care.

NIASW held a very successful meeting with Minister for Health, Edwin Poots, on 14 January to discuss the Association’s recent survey of Northern Ireland practitioners, ‘Social Work not Paperwork’.

Elderly people have suffered “an abominable betrayal” over social care, a leading public health doctor has said.

Contact NI, which runs a telephone counselling service called Lifeline, was criticised after documents blew out of a fire escape onto the street

The chairman of the Northern Health Trust, Jim Stewart, has been sacked. It is the first time that a senior health manager has been removed from his post at a Northern Ireland trust.

Health Minister Edwin Poots has said health care assistants have a significant role to play in the reform of Health and Social Care.

New NSPCC guidelines aimed at improving how child abuse cases are reported in Northern Ireland are due to be published on Thursday.

The majority of childcare social workers in Northern Ireland spend less than a third of their working week with young people, new research has indicated.

The husband of a woman prisoner who killed herself in jail after repeatedly threatening to commit suicide is to sue the prison authorities.