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MPs defeat Government over moves to compensate infected blood scandal victims

By Richard Wheeler and Ben Hatton, Reporters5th December 2023News England

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered his first Commons defeat after Tory rebels backed speeding up efforts to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal. A total of 22 Conservative

Lack of secure accommodation sees teenager living under four-to-one supervision in hospital

By Michael Holmes, Reporter4th December 2023News England

A 15-year-old girl with a history of self-harming so extreme she has to be watched by four people is living in hospital because of the national shortage of secure accommodation.

Government announce £40 million social care funding to free up hospital beds this winter

By Joseph Draper, Reporter4th December 2023News England

Councils across England will receive a £40 million cash boost to provide social care and free up hospital beds this winter, the Government has announced. The fund will help 54

Some 36% of dementia sufferers in England remain undiagnosed, report says

By Helen William, Reporter4th December 2023News England

A call is being made for new, better and different ways to ensure that dementia cases do not go undiagnosed as a report says that 36% of sufferers in England

Visa changes for care workers prompts major concern from sector organisations

By Aine Fox, Reporter4th December 2023News England

“Swiftly improved” pay and conditions will be needed to drive domestic recruitment in social care, the Government has been warned, as changes to UK migration rules were judged by a

Home Secretary announces ban on overseas care workers bringing family dependants

By Sam Blewett and David Hughes, Reporters4th December 2023News England

Home Secretary James Cleverly has outlined a raft of new restrictions on legal migration which he said will slash the number of people arriving in Britain by 300,000 a year.

Care home fined after teenager murdered by man with history of predatory sexual violence

By Rod Minchin, Reporter1st December 2023News England

A care home has been fined £125,000 for breaching health and safety rules following the murder of a teenage girl nearly a decade ago by a fellow care home resident

Decision to discharge hospital patients to care homes made after ‘focused effort’ testing warning

By Sam Hall, Reporter1st December 2023News England

Matt Hancock was warned in April 2020 about the need for a “focused effort” on testing people in care homes, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been told. The former health

Hancock: Some regional leaders put ‘politics ahead of public health’ in swipe at Burnham

By Sam Hall, Reporter1st December 2023News England

Matt Hancock told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he found local political leaders in Liverpool easier to deal with than those in Manchester, in an apparent swipe at Andy Burnham.

Sunak would have put ‘enormous pressure’ on Johnson not to have lockdown – Hancock

By Jane Kirby, Sam Hall and Storm Newton, Reporters1st December 2023News England

Rishi Sunak would have put “enormous pressure” on Boris Johnson not to have an autumn lockdown – while school closures could have been avoided, the Covid inquiry has been told.