Sharp rise in medication, including chemical calming ‘cosh’, revealed in database study by Queen’s University Belfast

ULSTER Unionist Councillor Drew Ritchie has welcomed news from Westminster that social care costs for the elderly are to be capped in England.

Following the successful publication of the findings from NIASW’s ‘Social Work not Paperwork – Cutting Bureaucracy in Childcare Social Work’ survey in November 2012, the Association is pleased to launch the Adult Services Survey, which is now live.

The chair of the trade union Unison’s Foyle branch has said he fears Slievemore nursing unit could close in two weeks.

A lifeline for people at risk of suicide could be facing the axe, campaigners warned today. Bereaved families, carers and mental health patients have called for the Stormont Health Minister to intervene and save the Card Before You Leave (CBYL) scheme.

Health chiefs owe a legal duty to assess and review the community care needs of mental health patients in NI, a High Court judge has ruled.

A 15-year-old girl in care was allegedly involved in having sex and taking drugs with men linked to loyalist paramilitaries, the High Court has heard.

A Northern Ireland couple are under police investigation after the regulator found significant financial abuse of six vulnerable adults in care.

NIASW held a very successful meeting with Minister for Health, Edwin Poots, on 14 January to discuss the Association’s recent survey of Northern Ireland practitioners, ‘Social Work not Paperwork’.

Elderly people have suffered “an abominable betrayal” over social care, a leading public health doctor has said.