FEARS are growing that the most vulnerable people in Yorkshire are not getting the care they need because of a staffing crisis in care homes across the region.

BASW has cautioned that the Home Office’s decision to end child detention at Yarl’s Wood removal centre needs to be merely a first step in efforts to people in the immigration system are treated with greater dignity and respect.

Mental health charity Rethink has lodged a complaint with Ofcom over a sketch by comedian which parodied attempts to tackle stigma around mental illness.

THE Island’s director for children and education, Colin Peak, has become the first high-profile casualty of the financial crisis facing the IW Council.

A hospital dementia unit at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham has been formally recognised for its work.