Small scale farming in Africa and Asia - that is, farming small plots of land of up to two hectares and typically much less - provides 80% of the food for the market places and households across these continents. And women produce 60-80% of the food in developing countries.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers are facing a care "lottery", a charity has warned, after a damning report found that as many as 60% of patients are ...

I am confident that Find Me Good Care will also be helpful for people who provide services, because they will have feedback from their customers. That feedback will help Find Me Good Care to play its part in improving care and support services.

For now the spotlight is focused on this issue, but before it moves on we mustn't miss the opportunity to transform our wider support for children and young people in care, ensuring that we protect all vulnerable children.

Is there a crisis of compassion in health and social care? If the shocking scenes featured in Panorama's Undercover: Elderly Care are anything to go by, the answer is surely yes.

An independent investigation is needed into England's children's homes which are failing to manage and protect youngsters who run away or go missing, ...

David Cameron has been warned by a group of leading charities that pensioners could face a life of "misery and fear" without reforms to social care. ...

The health needs of elderly people are considered a "secondary requirement" in some of Britain's care homes, a report has found. Certain institutio...

When children have no experience of a trusting relationship with an adult and are frequently moved from placement to placement the emotional trauma is immense. We shouldn't be surprised when this emotional trauma occasionally spills out into anger and violence.