Care Home Agreed For Ex-Hotel Site
The former Rothsay Hotel is set to make way for a 60-bed nursing home for the elderly. Test Valley Borough Council’s northern area planning committee gave the scheme the go-ahead at their recent meeting.
Read MoreThe former Rothsay Hotel is set to make way for a 60-bed nursing home for the elderly. Test Valley Borough Council’s northern area planning committee gave the scheme the go-ahead at their recent meeting.
Read MoreA furniture storage firm has become the latest business to support plans for a £1.7million homeless community. Emmaus, which has 440 similar communities in 40 countries, has purchased the former Birches care home building in Ribbleton, to create the 14th such community in the UK.
Read MoreA researcher conducting a study into the mental health of young soldiers is hoping to remove the “huge stigma” attached to asking for support within the Army. Steven Walker, a principal research officer at the University of Essex, is working with his colleague Professor Gill Green on a study into the emotional health of young soldiers, some of whom are based in Colchester.
Read MoreThe Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), the regulator for social care in England, has today responded to the Government’s consultation document, “The future regulation of health and adult social care in England”.
Read MoreOverflowing bins, unhygienic kitchens and out-of-date medical records were just some of the discoveries made at care homes in Mole Valley last year. Inspections carried out by the Commission for Social Care uncovered alarming problems at residential homes for the elderly and disabled members of the community.
Read MoreA young woman manager who was sacked because her plan to adopt a child would make her “no bloody use” to her employers won a landmark employment tribunal case yesterday.
Read MoreThe head of the new equality commission yesterday called for race quota laws that will allow employers to favour minorities. Trevor Phillips demanded that 30-year-old rules, which forbid discrimination on grounds of race or sex, should be scrapped.
Read MoreAn elderly woman who died after an accident in her home was let down by the carers who should have looked after her, a government ombudsman has said. Maria Stones, 95, died after her home-help failed to report a fall in January 2004 which left her with eight broken ribs.
Read MoreA town is being stripped of scores of public sector jobs because its residents are “too white and British”. The Prison Service is relocating the posts to a nearby city where there are more ethnic minorities.
Read MoreA vote of no confidence in the governor of a young offenders’ institution hit by rioting has been delivered by the Prison Officers Association (POA). A wing at Deerbolt, near Barnard Castle, County Durham, was taken over by inmates for five hours on Tuesday.
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