Councils are concerned the Government’s adult social care reforms will be “significantly underfunded” under current plans, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. The organisation, which conducted a survey of
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A Belfast conference is set to hear a call to encourage male leaders to speak out against all forms of gender-based abuse and violence. US based educator Dr Jackson Katz
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A woman has been jailed for almost five years after she and her family faked a neurological condition to scam a local authority out of more than £624,000. Frances Noble,
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Calls have been made for more epilepsy specialist nurses (ESN) after research showed their workloads are reaching unmanageable levels, with patients waiting up to five months to be seen. Epilepsy
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid has spoken of his “deeply personal” mission to prevent suicides, four years after his brother’s death. Mr Javid’s brother, Tariq, took his own life in a
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The death of a vulnerable man who was hit by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital has sparked a criminal investigation into the care provider and its
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A further eight referrals involving strip searches of children have been made to the police watchdog. The voluntary referrals relate to separate incidents between December 2019 and March 2022, where
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An SNP MP has been cleared of sexual misconduct after an investigation into claims she asked a member of party staff to go home with her. Patricia Gibson, the MP
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Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes have jumped for the third week in a row while hospital numbers are continuing to rise, in further evidence the virus is once again becoming
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Unpaid carers are feeling increasingly socially isolated, stressed, depressed and not encouraged or supported in their roles, new NHS figures show. Fewer carers are able to take a break from
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