A network of dementia research centres is being launched with £30 million in funding to find a cure for the disease. Alzheimer’s Research UK, the world’s largest dedicated dementia research
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Social care funding must be protected in the same way that it is for the NHS in the next Budget or another crisis such as the one seen this winter
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Women are hit hardest by the dementia epidemic sweeping Britain, according to a new study. The illness is not only the leading cause of death among British woman, but they
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The Duchess of Cambridge has spoken of the importance of preventing children’s problems becoming worse as they get older in a video message she has recorded to support the UK’s
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Inspectors who ordered the immediate closure of a private care home observed staff being rough with residents and soiled waste left in open bags, a report has found. Merok Park
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London faces a “rapidly unravelling” mental health crisis, a Labour candidate for City Hall warned. Diane Abbott, the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said real term cuts
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Home Secretary Theresa May has been criticised by MPs for refusing to release details of the salary of the new head of the inquiry into historic child sex abuse. The
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The number of children being counselled through ChildLine about online sexual abuse has more than doubled, according to the charity. ChildLine said it carried out 2,842 counselling sessions on the
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Schemes aimed at helping the millions of people who juggle work with caring responsibilities are to be trialled, including the promotion of flexible working. The Government is to spend £1.6
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A&E visits by children and young people with a mental health illness have almost doubled since 2010/11, official figures show. And around two-thirds of the patients were unable to be
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