Hundreds of new safeguarding concerns were investigated in adult social care in Blackpool last year, figures show. When an adult in care is judged to be at risk of abuse or neglect, local ...

Blackpool Council is set to cut £8.6m from its budget in the coming financial year with council tax bills expected to go up by five per cent. The savings – which are mainly in adult social care ...

Steve Pullan, executive director for Adult Social Care, Blackpool Council said: "All councils will only place people in registered care homes which have met the standards laid down by the Commission ...

Jo Farrell, the council's cabinet member for adult social care, described the death as "deeply upsetting". "For a young woman to have lost her life in such a cruel way at the hands of her mother ...

Blackpool's Highbury House Care Home exposed a resident to "significant harm", the care watchdog says. ... Sheila Grant, the CQC's head of adult social care inspection, ...

Karen Smith, director of adult social care at Blackpool Council and director of health and care integration at the ICB, told the meeting: “We don’t get to save £350m by keeping everything the same as ...

Almost £9m is set to be cut from a Lancashire council's budget from April. Blackpool Council's savings are coming mostly from adult social care and children's services - while council tax bills ...

MPs have been warned about the scale of adult social care bills decimating council funding — with one local authority reportedly spending £1.5m on an individual's care without receiving any additional ...

A home has been fined £120,000 over the death of an elderly resident who was "exposed to significant harm", the care watchdog has said. Mary Fallon was found unresponsive in her bed at Highbury ...