Almost half of specialist teachers for deaf children feel pupils are performing worse than five years ago, a charity suggests. The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) says the system is
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The funding of mental health care for Scotland’s prisoners must be increased after the number of self-harm incidents “skyrocketed”, an MSP has said. Figures show there were 762 incidents in
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A study from academics at Oxford Brookes University has identified new strategies to support stressed social workers. With previous surveys finding stress and burnout a major problem in social work,
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The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a good practice guide which shares lessons from complaints to help adult social care providers improve their services. Based on the
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Researchers have carried out the first long-term study into potential factors that could lead to suicide attempts in high-risk young people. The University of Bristol team examined questionnaire data from
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Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced that Wales will be the first nation in the UK to introduce a locum register from April this year. The introduction of the
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Former Liberal leader Lord Steel has been suspended from the Liberal Democrats, pending an investigation into evidence he gave to an inquiry about child abuse allegations against former MP Sir
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The Honours Committee received anonymous allegations of child sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile in 1998, an inquiry has heard. The Westminster strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
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A Catholic priest has been jailed for nine years and 11 months after abusing six children in the 1970s, leaving one of his victims “in fractured pieces”. Francis McDermott, 75,
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A woman who pretended to have cancer in order to help defraud the charity she worked for out of more than £85,000 has been jailed by a judge who told
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