The findings of a UK-wide four year research project to help health care employers get the most out of work-based practice learning have been unveiled by the University of Ulster.

A charity has launched a new appeal for mentors to help provide young people in care with the support needed to achieve their full potential. The ‘Do You Care?’ campaign by Voypic – the Voice of Young People in Care – aims to encourage adults of all ages to volunteer for the charity’s recently launched mentoring programme.

A Catholic priest accused of helping his friend sexually abuse a girl did not realise she was being molested, Liverpool Crown Court has heard. Father Jeremiah McGrath allegedly gave money to William Adams, 38, a sex offender originally of Belfast, to buy gifts for a 12-year-old from Liverpool.

The Minister for Health, Mary Harney, has said there will be no pause in the recruitment process for hospital consultants, despite today’s limited industrial action.

The family of a pensioner who sustained more than 30 fractures after her death say they are “entirely dissatisfied” with the explanation from the coroner.

A leading anti-poverty campaigner has accused a children’s charity of exaggerating levels of child poverty in Londonderry. Save the Children claimed nearly 11,000 children are living below the poverty line in the city.

The Health Service Executive is to review several cases as a precautionary measure after a woman was diagnosed with cancer after having been mistakenly given the all clear.

It’s emerged just one in five people suffering from mental ill health are working. A draft report on Mental Health and Social Inclusion, published by the National Economic and Social Forum shows that without work, they are at a greater risk of exclusion.

A new report on juvenile delinquency has found that four out of five young people in detention schools have psychiatric problems.

The Northern Ireland Health minister, Michael McGimpsey has committed £28 million to fund two new health and care centres in Belfast. The centres, to be sited in Andersonstown and the Shankill, will offer a range of health and social care services such as family planning, orthodontics, nutrition, dietetics and physiotherapy.