Establishing a National Care Service can be one of Holyrood’s “biggest ever achievements”, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Announcing the Programme for Government, Scotland’s First Minister confirmed plans to create a
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An Essex man who has just entered a care home faces losing his life savings and his property because new Government support will come too late to help him. David
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The size of the State, with higher taxes and more spending, is set to be permanently made bigger by the UK Government’s social care reforms, according to a think tank.
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The number of children and young people waiting a year or more for specialist mental health care has increased by almost 115% in the last 12 months – with “frightening
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Boris Johnson has unveiled plans for a £12 billion-a-year tax rise from April 2022, to fund social care reform in England and to tackle the NHS’s COVID-induced backlog of cases.
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Social care funding pledged by the Government for the next three years is “nowhere near enough”, sector leaders have said. Some £5.3 billion will go towards social care between 2022-23
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Police have made a renewed public appeal for a mother who has gone into hiding with her 10-year-old son after care proceedings were launched. Kelly Jefferies, 42, and her son
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Boris Johnson is forcing Scottish workers to pay for social care reforms in England via his own “poll tax”, the SNP has claimed. The Prime Minister told MPs the proposed
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Boris Johnson broke an election promise as he announced a £12 billion a year tax raid to address the funding crisis in health and social care. The Prime Minister insisted
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A trainee doctor has been jailed for attempting to meet a fictitious 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity. Jamil Rehman, 35, contacted an online profile purporting to be the
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