Depending on where they live, people may have to pay more in council tax because of the growing financial cost of adult ...

Essex coroner Sean Horstead said in a Prevention of Future Deaths report that adult social care at Essex County Council had failed to respond appropriately to three separate requests for help from Mrs ...

The Casey Commission has also been launched against a turbulent backdrop for the services and institutions that surround adult social care. All English councils have embarked on a programme of reform ...

Zahraa Adam, 23, is a social worker for Essex County Council’s Children In Care specialist team. She lives in east London with her parents and two brothers At 7am. I’ll usually wear a pencil ...

The demand for both adult ... council's budget. With an ageing population and an anticipated rise in the number of over 65s expected to move to the county in the next 20 years, the demand for ...

Essex County Council has been criticised for failing to properly care for a 75-year-old woman who took her own life while struggling to care for her elderly husband. Linda Sitch died on November ...