Ministers have insisted they had no say on the timing or content of a “damning” report into mental health care published when parliament was in recess. Shadow mental health minister
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An abusive culture developed at two care homes where staff routinely imprisoned disabled adults in empty rooms to punish or control them, a court heard. Vulnerable residents were left alone
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A vulnerable teenage boy in local authority care was subjected to a “horrifying and appalling” series of rapes and repeatedly sold for sex in a red light district, a court
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A major campaign to cut suicides is being launched as research suggests three quarters of people do not feel able to open up about their true emotions. The Samaritans is
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A children’s charity urged ministers to reconsider plans for a four-year freeze on a range of benefits and agree a moratorium on future welfare cuts for low-income families. The charity
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Vital support services for the elderly and vulnerable are at risk despite most councils planning to hike up bills to meet spiralling costs, town hall leaders have warned. A 2%
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Too many people have to reach a crisis point before they get the health and social care they need, the British Red Cross said. It warned that failing to adequately
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The Government must dramatically improve the protection it gives people with learning disabilities in the wake of abuse scandals, an official report will say. Some 3,500 vulnerable disabled people are
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Thousands of jobs that no-one wants to do, like looking after the vulnerable and elderly, could leave care work in crisis, a survey claims. Two-thirds of adults polled would shun
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A High Court judge has called for a new “review mechanism” to be set up for individuals whose job prospects and lives are blighted after being labelled sexual offenders as
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