GPS tracking devices are to be given to people with dementia and learning difficulties in Surrey. Surrey County Council (SCC) said the trackers could send an alert to a smart

Prevention is better than cure and with that in mind Bucks County Council has launched a new £4 million scheme to provide vulnerable adults with early care. The scheme, Prevention

It was first rated inadequate in 2009 following a series of deaths of children known to social workers – including Khyra Ishaq, who was starved to death Birmingham city council’s

The borough’s new consumer champion for health and social care launched on Wednesday and now begins the process of recruiting board members. The launch, at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, saw 150

If people became more involved with care homes it would benefit residents and provide an extra quality check, by Lord Michael Bichard Cookery classes, art installations, coffee mornings. On Friday,

A BUSINESSMAN has applied to open a new children’s home in Littleover but 12 people have objected. Meaksh Mehan, who runs Uma Fashions, in Normanton Road, has applied to Derby

Too many mentally ill people are being held in police cells, say four watchdog bodies in England and Wales. A report from the four bodies covering police, prisons and care

Doncaster Council has appointed a new improvement partner to transform its children’s services. An Oftsted report last year found standards at the council were low and social workers were failing

NEW figures reveal there has been a rise in the number of safeguarding referrals for vulnerable adults claiming to have been abused. Hartlepool Borough Council has produced the annual figures

A union has called for the “myth” that the private sector can run the public services “more effectively” to be “exploded”. It comes in the wake of residents being removed