Dozens of children with mental health problems are being treated on adult psychiatric wards despite the practice being banned, it has been reported. New figures are said to also show
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Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi will narrate a documentary about what it is like to have a parent in prison for BBC Children In Need. Prison, My Parents and Me
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The Scottish Government has been ordered to pay the legal bill of campaigners who opposed its named-person scheme. The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the SNP administration must meet
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NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved frontline staff, a leading think tank has warned. NHS England
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Wales Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has announced his intention to establish a new body to oversee strategic workforce planning, workforce design and education commissioning for NHS Wales. The working title
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Just one in ten adult social care directors believe their budgets are now manageable, as the Government is warned care funding cuts in county areas could soon be ‘terminal.’ Today,
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Nearly half the staff at a Norfolk care home have been ordered to leave the UK after the licence allowing them to work there legally was withdrawn. Nine people from
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Two children were taken from their mother’s care after social workers raised concerns about her inability to provide behaviour boundaries. The woman’s seven-year-old son has gone into foster care and
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A nursery worker has appeared in court charged with rape and causing or inciting a boy to engage in sexual activity. Jamie Chapman, who faces a total of 15 charges,
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A disabled woman from Glasgow has been stuck in hospital for 210 days as council officials fail to agree a care package with her family. Janice Arundel, 58, was cleared
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