The Deputy First Minister has welcomed official poverty statistics published today that show that the number of children living in relative poverty has fallen in Scotland between 2009-10 and 2011-12.
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A £2m research programme into the care of people with dementia in Northern Ireland is being launched later. It is being jointly funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Public
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The Scottish government has pledged to refund anyone being wrongly charged for care which should have been free. It comes after BBC Scotland revealed people may be spending thousands of
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Health Minister Edwin Poots and Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland today jointly opened Cedar Court sheltered housing development in Downpatrick. Cedar Court caters for frail older people and older people
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A BRAND new health and social care centre is set for East Pollokshields thanks to a joint effort by the NHS and Glasgow city council. Work is due to start
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The latest ‘Green Paper’ from ResPublica, Putting People into Personalisation: Relational approaches to social care and housing, argues that social care needs a radical shake up to ensure genuine choice
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The UK’s 6.5m unpaid carers play a vital role, yet too often their contribution is ignored or misunderstood, by Sharon Allen Unpaid carers are vitally important partners in supporting people
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Recruitment will start next month for 20 staff at a new £750,000 specialist care home being built on the site of an old Bradford pub. West Yorkshire-based Horizon Healthcare Homes
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Two care assistants who abused severely disabled patients in South Yorkshire will be sentenced. James Hinds and Susan Murphy humiliated and assaulted vulnerable adults at a mental health unit in
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A care home worker who arrived for her shift to find dementia patients covered in filth said she took photos of the scene in case no one believed how bad
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