Care

Ministers to crackdown on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push

Families call for inquiry into residential care charity that ran up £1.6m debt

Reform councillors say they will not close Lancashire care homes

MPs criticise behaviour of senior DWP officials over carer’s allowance scandal

Halifax care home manager sexually abused children for decades, court hears

The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty | Editorial

Finding a home is the care leaver’s greatest problem | Letter

Jim Thomas obituary

Dame Gillian Wagner obituary

The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children does not end at 18 | Editorial

‘They thought we were problem children’: how grooming victims were failed in Oldham

‘Joy and happiness’: why playgroups held in aged care homes are blossoming in Australia | Ella Archibald-Binge

Vulnerable people still living in unsafe supported housing in England two years after law was passed

Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’

Young care leavers in England to get free prescriptions, dental and eye services