Ministers and experts failed to recognise that care home residents were at risk from workers moving between homes and spreading Covid-19, England’s chief medical officer has acknowledged. Professor Chris Whitty
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Concerns have been raised over whether the Welsh Government and public bodies in Wales met their responsibilities to uphold the rights of older people during the coronavirus pandemic. Helena Herklots,
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Social care providers have accused the Government of “sidestepping” the issue of low pay for care staff, while professions covered by the public sector pay rise warned of a blow
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The Scottish Social Services Council has launched a new resource which showcases how the social service workforce has adapted, coped and excelled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspiring Care Stories brings
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Public sector workers on the front line of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic will be given a pay rise, the Chancellor has announced. Doctors, teachers and police officers are among
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A working single mother has won a landmark High Court challenge against the Government’s Universal Credit rules for assessing earnings. The Department for Work and Pensions’ approach to calculating earnings
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The Covid-19 vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford is safe and induces an immune reaction, “encouraging” preliminary results of the study suggest. Researchers say their tests have revealed
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The Government has signed deals for 90 million doses of promising Covid-19 vaccines, with more in the pipeline. The latest deal is for vaccines being developed by an alliance between
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More than a hundred people with learning disabilities received care so poor that it significantly affected their wellbeing or “directly contributed” to their death, a report has found. Some 7,145
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A rise in the number of self-harm incidents in immigration detention centres is the chilling effect of the Government’s “hostile environment”, it has been claimed. Home Office statistics indicate that
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