Council social services bosses say they are trying to arrange a care package for a woman with mental health difficulties after a judge said she had “effectively been detained” in
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A charity has warned of a “domestic human rights scandal” over the number of people with a learning disability being kept in institutions. Mencap said a lack of urgency and
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The Home Office has come under fire after it emerged that fewer than half of immigration detainees depart the country when they leave detention. In a scathing report, the Commons
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More than half of Universal Credit claimants have money “deducted” from their benefits by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), new figures have shown. Figures released in response to
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Communities are facing a “serious shortfall” in children’s health visitors, council leaders have warned. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, said investment is
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NHS chiefs are bringing the cervical screening service back in-house after expressing dissatisfaction at the way it has been performing. Chief executive of NHS England Simon Stevens told the Commons
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Louis Theroux will explore postpartum mental illness in his upcoming BBC Two documentary. Mothers On The Edge will see the filmmaker spending time in two specialist psychiatric units which treat
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Campaigners have accused police of “a systemic failure” to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence in only the second super-complaint made to a national watchdog. The Centre for Women’s
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GPs and health service practitioners should be able to prescribe technology such as wearable devices and monitoring systems to tackle loneliness among older people, a report has recommended. It is
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County lines drug gangs are fuelling a rise in the number of British children being used as slaves, with cases more than doubling in a year. Figures released by the
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