Police Crack Down On Sex Trade ‘Slavers’
Police yesterday redoubled their campaign against sex slave traffickers as it emerged women from 37 countries were working in Glasgow brothels.
Read MorePolice yesterday redoubled their campaign against sex slave traffickers as it emerged women from 37 countries were working in Glasgow brothels.
Read MoreAn exhibition of artwork by children who have lived with substance abuse or domestic violence has gone on display in Arbroath.
Read MoreStrathclyde Police has been ordered to apologise to the mother of a 14-year-old boy who was held in custody for more than two days.
Read MoreMore than 400 separate legal actions are reportedly being taken against the Department of Health over illegal nursing home charges.
Read MoreResidents of a small town were last night “disturbed” that one of Britain’s most wanted child sex offenders had been living in their midst for up to seven years.
Read MoreHealth Minister Michael McGimpsey has officially opened Barn Halt Cottages – a new and innovative housing scheme for older people in Carrickfergus.
Read MoreWork is due to start in the next few weeks on a new £133m hospital for Caerphilly, say health officials. An artist’s impression has been unveiled of the new Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, which will be built near Ystrad Mynach.
Read MoreHomelessness in rural Wales has risen at almost twice the rate of urban areas over the past three decades, according to a social research charity.
Read MoreCare homes should be barred from hiding drugs in the food and drink of elderly residents, campaigners said yesterday.
{mosimage}The call follows concern that nursing staff are dishing out sedatives to the frail and elderly without their knowledge or consent. The new campaign follows official acknowledgement that drugs are often badly handled in care homes.
Last year the Government’s inspection body, the Commission for Social Care Inspection, reported that nearly half of all care home residents do not get the correct drugs and warned of risks of ‘wilful maladministration of medicine’.
The ‘chemical cosh’ for confused and vulnerable people can make life easy for those who are looking after them.
But it can also lead to a rapid decline in health and risk of death for the residents who are sedated.
Complaints over covert medication were raised with the Scottish Parliament by Hunter Watson, who discovered that care home staff were giving medication to his mother disguised in her meals.
He told the BBC: “It shouldn’t happen. It is very very convenient for staff at care homes to conceal drugs in the food and drink of residents, not for therapeutic problems but to make the residents easier to manage.
Read MoreThe owner of two Devon care homes has called in administrators following trading difficulties. Starlight Care Ltd, which owns the Swallowcliffe home in Seaton and the Koppers home in Kilmington, has called in Exeter corporate recovery firm Begbies Traynor.
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