A significant proportion of elderly people plan to cut back on the amount of money they spend on care amid the cost-of-living crisis, a new poll suggests. Age UK said
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Social care is the “bedrock” of the nation’s prosperity and parts of the economy are starting to break down as the sector struggles, Labour has warned. Liz Kendall (pictured) said
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Three teenage girls died after “multifaceted and systemic” failures in NHS mental health care, an independent investigation has found. Christie Harnett (pictured right), 17, Nadia Sharif (pictured left), 17 and
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A mother and her partner have both been jailed for life with a minimum term of 39 years for murdering her son during a campaign of “horrific and prolonged torture”.
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Police are investigating allegations a teenage boy was raped by a man in his 30s at a hotel being used to house asylum seekers. A child under the age of
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Police, fire and ambulance chiefs offered profuse apologies after a scathing report into the emergency response to the Manchester Arena bombing. One of the 22 people murdered in the suicide
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A recruitment drive to fill tens of thousands of vacancies in the social care sector has been launched by the Government for the second year in a row. The Made
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Vital help from children’s services has become “the last resort” for some families in England, with social care leaders warning “we cannot continue to do this on the cheap”. Councils
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Staff shortages among healthcare workers at a Scottish prison are having a “detrimental impact” across the establishment, according to an inspection report. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland published the
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“Things have never been so bad” for England’s adult social care sector, a social services director has warned. A “staggering” number of older and disabled people are not getting the
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