• Sure Start numbers plummet as cuts hit children’s services

    Exclusive: study reveals 20% decline in use with biggest fall in England’s poorest areasLocal authority spending cuts have driven a 20% fall in the number of youngsters using Sure Start children’s centres in just four years, with the most dramatic decline occurring in some of England’s poorest areas, a study has found.The Action for Children charity estimates that 1.8 million children used Sure Start centres in England in 2017-18 – down from 2.2 million four years earlier
  • Scarborough care home gets ‘Good’ across the board after CQC inspection

    The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Maple Court, Barrowcliff Road in Scarborough to be Good across the board following an inspection on April 8th 2019. Maple Court provides residential, residential dementia and nursing care for up to 64 older people over 65 years old. The report says that the […]

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