After nearly eight years at Manchester City Council, the last three as Strategic Director of Children’s Services, Mike Livingstone has decided to move on. His decision was largely influenced by
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Social investment could play a leading role in alleviating the crisis faced in social care for older people, but urgent action is needed to make this happen, says a new
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Scots Health Secretary Alex Neil has announced the construction of two new health centres which will support communities in Glasgow and East Renfrewshire. thanks to almost £22 million in Scottish
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Staff at three high security psychiatric hospitals will go on strike today in the bitter dispute with the Government over health workers’ pay. Members of the Prison Officers Association at
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Today’s health and social care services are missing important opportunities to provide better care and to decrease the cost of emergency admissions to hospitals, according to one of Britain’s leading
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A Government decision to close a fund that helps the disabled to work and live in the community is under attack in the High Court. The Equality and Human Rights
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Prosecutors have drawn up a fresh action plan for tackling disability hate crimes after figures revealed a drop in the number of convictions for the offence. The Crown Prosecution Service
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Fiona Woolf is facing mounting pressure to step down as chair of the Government’s historic child abuse inquiry after it emerged that her list of meetings with former home secretary
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Thousands of sick and disabled people are being subjected to “upsetting and unnecessary” benefits assessments, charities have warned. People living with progressive and degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s, motor neurone
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A woman who ran a unit to tackle sexual exploitation for more than a decade has accused senior police officers of failing to act on the problem and telling her
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