The prisons watchdog has delivered a scathing assessment of one of Britain’s most famous jails, raising the alarm over chronic staff shortages, food supplies and a surge in violence. Wormwood
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A warehouseman found to have shaken his baby daughter and caused a brain injury could be allowed to care for the youngster again if therapy is successful, a senior family
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Around 30,000 people with mental illness will spend Christmas with the prospect of a tribunal hanging over them, having attempted to claim disability benefits, campaigners have said. Analysis of Government
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The government has announced the phased roll-out of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) from 2018 for child and family social workers. The announcement is in response to a consultation
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A £72,000 cap on social care costs due to come into effect in four years will be scrapped, a health minister has said, as she confirmed plans for a new
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A Tory former children’s minister has demanded assurances from the Government that children’s social care is being treated with the same level of importance as the care of adults. Tim
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The NHS is under “severe pressure” as it faces potentially the worst flu season in two decades, health service experts have warned. NHS Providers said the health service in England
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An adoption agency’s advertising claim that it used only “experienced competent assessors” has been banned following a complaint that it received an overall “inadequate” ranking from Ofsted. The Advertising Standards
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Some 128,000 children will wake up homeless in Britain on Christmas Day – the highest number in a decade, according to a leading housing charity. The figure, which has jumped
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There are to be 300 more radiographers employed by the NHS in England, ministers have announced as experts have warned of a “crisis” in the diagnostic workforce. Health Secretary Jeremy
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