COUNCILLORS have voted to close a Bala care home in favour of people receiving extra care in their own homes.

GOVERNMENT chiefs are being urged to reduce the VAT rate to 5% for social care providers by the owner of an award-winning care organisation.

POLICE have dealt with more than 300 incidents of children being attacked by their own parents in the last five years, new figures have revealed.

LOCAL authorities across Wales have been accused of failing to meet legal obligations to pay for private care home places.

Child protection reviews in Wales will be conducted quicker in future, it has been announced.

A council says a court judgement ordering it to pay higher fees to around 30 private care homes will cost it an extra £1.5m this year.

At least one care home may close as Gwynedd council reviews its residential and nursing care for older people.

Most people get good quality social care in Wales but there is still room for improvement, says a report.

THE mother of a four-year-old girl says she has endured a living hell after an administration blunder led officials to believe her daughter had previously been in foster care.

BASW Cymru is calling on the Welsh Assembly to join forces with it on a Social Work Bill that would promote the ‘most neglected and least understood profession in the UK’.