New guidance to dispel myths around fostering and adopting has been launched in a bid to boost the number of Muslims helping children in care. The first Islamic Guidance Document
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Hundreds of disabled people are set to benefit from a £15,000 boost to a cap on funding provided through a flagship scheme to help people into work. Work and Pensions
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A legal action over payments for “sleep-in” shifts, which could cost the UK care industry billions if judges rule in favour of workers, has reached the Court of Appeal. Leading
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All patients in England will soon be able to be referred to hospitals with the shortest waiting lists under plans unveiled alongside a new contract for GPs. The e-Referral Service
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Jeremy Hunt has branded as “totally unacceptable” reports that head teachers have had to prove children had attempted suicide before they could be treated by mental health services. The Health
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Thirteen NHS bodies have been threatened with legal action over policies which “breach the human rights of patients”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is launching legal action against
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Many health service staff display a “woeful ignorance” about the damage caused to patients by overdependence on prescription drugs, ministers have been told. Labour health spokesman Lord Hunt of Kings
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Domestic violence victims in Birmingham are being sent as far away as Manchester amid a “national crisis” in refuges, Labour has said. Shadow communities minister Melanie Onn hit out at
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An independent social worker has told an inquest that she did not see the “volatility” of a father who went on to beat his six-year-old daughter to death as a
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Five children whose parents have a history of drug abuse and can no longer look after them should go into care and be split up, a family court judge has
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