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Genes pin-pointed as cause of learning disabilities

By Craegmoor Healthcare30th June 2009News England

Scientists have pin-pointed several dozen genes potentially linked to learning disabilities, narrowing the range down from a list of thousands.

£1.4m for Scarborough deaf children’s service

By The Scarborough Evening News30th June 2009News England

A DEAF children’s service which helps Scarborough youngsters has been given £1.4 million to expand its service. The Deaf Children, Young People and Family Service, which is based at the Lime Trees Child Adolescent and Family Unit in York, will be opening new centres in Newcastle and Manchester.

£20 per hour for Brighton and Hove home care

By The Argus30th June 2009News England

Pensioners living at home in Brighton and Hove are having to pay more for council care than almost anywhere else in the country. The city has the second highest charges in the UK for the day care, on which many elderly residents and their families are forced to depend.

Why fewer means better for Scotland’s regulators

By The Herald30th June 2009News Scotland

It’s a very good start, says Lorne Crerar, of his assault on the Byzantine organic complexity of the bodies which regulate Scotland’s public services. “It’s almost more than I could have hoped for.”

New Tayside psychiatric units move step closer

By The Press & Journal29th June 2009News Scotland

Plans for a £95million development of mental health services in Tayside have taken a step forward with the award of the project’s contract.

£8m pledged to build children’s homes

By The Herald29th June 2009News Scotland

Scotland’s largest local authority has pledged to spend £8m on nine new build children’s homes, as it aims to modernise its care of youngsters and put to bed the controversy over the infamous Kerelaw home.

Dementia care centre starved of finance

By The Inverness Courier29th June 2009News Scotland

A SPECIALIST care service for people with dementia in Inverness is facing a crippling £110,000 deficit this year — all because Highland Council refuses to pay its share.

Unhappy return: fear and loathing await fugitives from Belfast racism

By guardian.co.uk29th June 2009News Northern Ireland

Haystacks dot the fields around the village of Tileagd, roses climb up walls, and traffic thunders past its outskirts. The centre of the village is quiet, except for the clip-clop of a horse and cart, and the squeals of children in a playground. Set among lush cornfields and gentle green hills in one of the more prosperous parts of Romania, it seems like a nice, if sleepy place to live.