The deaths of a retired couple who were killed by a man with a severe mental health illness were “entirely preventable”, a coroner has found. Pensioners Marjorie and Michael Cawdery,
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A dedicated ministerial position for disabled people must be reinstated, charities said as they accused the Government of “downgrading” the role. Mims Davies (pictured) said she is “honoured” to have
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Levels of homelessness in England this Christmas are likely to be 14% higher than last year, according to analysis by Shelter, which blamed a housing emergency it said is out
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A nurse who drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for an “easy life” and to “exercise contemptuous power” has been jailed for seven years and two months. Catherine Hudson
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The social care sector is “broadly relaxed” about changes which will see international care workers banned from bringing dependants when they come to the UK, the Health Secretary has said.
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Raising the income threshold for family visas will have a minimal impact on immigration numbers, a Government adviser has said. Rule changes will not be a “major player in reducing
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Immigration is “not the solution” to problems in the social care workforce, according to a Government adviser. Professor Brian Bell reiterated calls for care worker pay to “rise significantly above
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Seventeen organisations have come together in a call for the Scottish Government to increase mental health funding. Bipolar Scotland, the Royal College of GPs, Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH),
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More than one million of the UK’s most vulnerable adults will be living in “Dickensian” cold and damp homes this Christmas, campaigners have warned. Some 16% of adults overall, or
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The Prime Minister has won a crunch vote on his Rwanda plan despite right-wing Conservative factions announcing they could not back emergency “stop the boats” legislation. With Rishi Sunak facing
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