CCG leaders are running a procurement process worth between £700m and £1.1bn to provide care services for elderly patients, in a move branded the ‘most audacious sell-off to date’ by

Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb has announced plans to shake up the way social care data is collected from local authorities. On Friday he revealed an overhaul of the

Residents of a Cornish care home are “shocked and upset” after its owners confirmed the facility is to close on 7 August due to financial difficulties. About 45 jobs will

A social worker who had extreme pornography on his home computer is to face a disciplinary hearing. Stewart Ford, of Little Wakering in Essex, was last year given a year-long

Local authorities across the country are being given a share of £11.8m by the Department of Health as the way data collected on social care shifts to focus on results.

CHILDREN are exposed to unnecessary risk and harm because of “systemic weaknesses” in Devon’s child protection services, inspectors say. An OFSTED report into the performance of the services found them

Police are reviewing video footage after receiving an allegation of abuse at a care home. Footage was alleged to have been filmed at Selborne House, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, Selborne Care

A SOCIAL worker cared for a man with learning difficulties and used his wheelchair to shoplift while on his weekly shopping trip. Alma Padilla was arrested by police on May

More social workers are being recruited to help deal with serious failings in the team helping Cumbria’s most vulnerable children. The county council’s children’s services department has been ranked as

An MP has called for an urgent review into how a row over care between the family of one of the UK’s oldest women and a hospital came to involve