The government's health legislation faces being further delayed until the autumn bringing confusion for social wokers re-registering next year if it puts back the abolition of the General Social Care Council.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (Thursday 26 May) published the first 12 reports from an inspection programme which examines whether elderly people receive essential standards of care in 100 NHS hospitals throughout England.

In Community Care's report on their latest personalisation survey they take a look at how Hartlepool Council (one of our adult social care programme members) has successfully implemented personalisation and cut bureaucracy.

Community Care has published its latest annual personalisation survey commissioned by Unison today (Wednesday 25 May).

In an article in today's Guardian, children's minister Sarah Teather has said the supply of speech therapy and basic equipment for children with special needs has become a 'postcode lottery'.

SCIE has launched a new safeguarding video showing how vulnerable people can easily be targeted by opportunist abusers.

The Dilnot Commission on care funding has heard an unequivocal call to reduce means-testing by increasing the £23,250 savings threshold before people have to start paying for care in England.

Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University writes in today's Society Guardian why social care must be given the same priority as the NHS.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a consultation on a new excellence award for adult social care services in England.

Adult safeguarding boards will be made compulsory for councils and their partners by being put on a statutory footing, care services minister Paul Burstow announced today.