Scotland’s Justice Secretary has admitted hundreds of criminals may now be out of prison despite the risk they pose to the public being wrongly calculated. The risk posed by convicted
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A man jailed after subjecting his partner to an attack so violent it left her brain-damaged and unable to walk independently has had his prison sentence increased. Adam Fleming (pictured),
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Families looking to adopt a child will be able to do so more quickly owing to new Government funding, it was announced on Thursday. The Government said it will invest
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Peers have thrown down the gauntlet to the Government in demanding better workforce planning in health and social care, amid warnings of a staffing crisis. Inflicting a defeat on the
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said the NHS must stop using energy supplied by the Russian-owned firm Gazprom. A senior government source told the PA news agency that Mr Javid
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There are not enough specially trained doctors to look after an ageing population, leading medics have warned. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said the NHS is “woefully underprepared” to
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Nearly a million people in the UK say long Covid is negatively affecting their daily lives as levels of the condition climb to a record high, new figures suggest. The
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Skills for Care, in collaboration with Supported Loving, Care Quality Commission (CQC), and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has conducted a learning materials review to provide social
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Some care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable to see loved ones during the pandemic, the outgoing chief executive of one of the UK’s biggest care
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Apologising to care home staff following the Government’s U-turn on mandatory vaccination “doesn’t feel like the right thing to do”, the care minister has said. Gillian Keegan (pictured) said the
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