The new nursing director at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in south west London has backed controversial proposals requiring all new nurses to have degrees.

CARE workers should be exempt from ISA registration charges, according to the UK’s number-one procurer of temporary agency labour for care, de Poel.

MEMBERS of Bolton’s biggest trade union have reacted angrily to council plans to make significant cuts to local youth services. The Bolton Metro branch of Unison has announced it is launching a campaign to defend what it maintains are vital services for young people in Bolton.

Middlesbrough’s director of children’s services has led apologies for the council’s failure to identify that a teenager with life-threatening health problems was being abused.

Three thousand pensioners living in care homes have been forced to sell their houses this year to pay for care, new analysis shows, equivalent to eight homes every day.
 

SOCIAL workers must be heard if problems in children’s services in Cornwall are to be solved. That was the message from the chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers, Hilton Dawson, following a report to Cornwall Council’s cabinet on how it intends to improve services to vulnerable children and young people.

An 82-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the death of a 92-year-old woman at a Dartmouth residential care home has been released on bail.

A ninety-two-year old woman has died in suspicious circumstances at a care home in Dartmouth, Devon, UK. Police have arrested an eighty-two-year old man in connection with her death.

Fears over the viability of the private care sector have been raised after two City-listed providers revealed a debt restructure and pre-tax losses.

AN INVESTIGATION is underway into fraudulent letters objecting to a proposed mental health home. It has emerged objections were sent on behalf of at least three people living near the Bear Hotel, Cravens Brow, Blackburn, without their knowledge.