Action For Children have launched a nationwide project that aims to equip young people with the basic skills and knowledge to help them into employment or training. In partnership with
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A new college for young offenders at Hydebank Wood in Belfast has been opened by the Northern Ireland Prison Service. The college, for 18-21 year old young men, will address
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A new, single body for Wales to strategically oversee workforce planning and commission education and training places for the NHS in Wales is needed, an independent review has recommended. The
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Prescribing heroin to addicts could be cheaper than methadone, an expert on addiction has suggested. Professor Martin Schechter, who has long campaigned on the issue, said the drug substitute did
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Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells has launched revised care standards for nursing homes. The standards set out the minimum requirements that providers of these services must achieve. They also
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The RCN Wales has launched their Nurse of the Year Awards for 2015 at Spire Cardiff Hospital. The Awards, to be held on 19 November at City Hall in Cardiff,
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An acquired brain injury hospital in Glasgow has been praised for the quality of its care following an unannounced inspection by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS). Inspectors reporting on The Disabilities
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Paedophiles are using the digital currency bitcoin to buy child sexual abuse images online, a UK internet watchdog has found. In its annual report for 2014, the Internet Watch Foundation
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Some of the UK’s top experts and organisations in the field of Learning Disability nursing will attend the annual Positive Choices conference, this year hosted by the University of South Wales, at Cardiff’s
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David Cameron promised 30 hours a week of free childcare for three and four-year-olds as he insisted the Tories were the “real party of working people”. Launching the Conservatives’ election
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