Human traffickers are using Belfast as a port of entry to the UK, it has been claimed.

Disabled people have become prisoners in their own home due to cuts in welfare payments and support services, it has been claimed.

A mother whose four-year-old daughter takes up to 20 epileptic fits a day has expressed dismay at the lack of medical services for children with the condition in Londonderry.

An increasing number of people working in social care in Northern Ireland have been found guilty of misconduct, the BBC has learned.

A senior University of Ulster academic is to advise a Stormont Executive commissioned Review of Health and Social Care Services in Northern Ireland.
 

Up to 500 nursing jobs are waiting to be filled in care homes for the elderly, it has been claimed.

The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW) has condemned plans to slash on-call payments made to social workers by around 60%, branding the plans “utterly unacceptable”.

THE latest statistics show that there has been a 10 percent rise in the number of children placed on the Protection Register this year in the Western Health Trust area, despite a two per cent drop in the last quarter.

A care worker at a Belfast residential home who failed to give a patient medication and then hid her mistake has been suspended from the social care register.