Last week we announced our support for a campaign to end child poverty. The national campaign has been brought to Blaenau Gwent by MP Dai Davies.Here, in his own words, Mr Davies explains why he is supporting the campaign and why the issue of child poverty is close to his heart.
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The MS Society has been chosen by the Department of Health from over 120 applications to participate in the testing phase of a new scheme to ensure good quality information across the health and social care sector.
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An increase in the ageing population might be one of the biggest challenges to the delivery of health care in the Highlands, bigger perhaps than smoking, alcohol abuse and obesity.
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The chief inspector of Scotland’s social work departments has warned them that they still have much to do if they want to prove their worth.
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A SOCIAL worker has been suspended after she was caught in a “steamy embrace” with a prisoner.
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Scottish schoolgirls are to become the first in the UK to be vaccinated against cervical cancer. Schools in the Lanarkshire, Tayside, Grampian and Western Isles NHS areas are to begin vaccinating 12 and 13-year-old girls from this week.
Ministers are bracing themselves for a rise in violent crime and burglaries and a shift to far-right extremism as the effects of the economic downturn take their toll, a leaked Home Office report to the Prime Minister says.
The government must give more money to help Britain’s six million unpaid carers, MPs have said. The Commons work and pensions committee said people who looked after friends and relatives saved the taxpayer £87bn.
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A CARE home where a pensioner died after falling from her wheelchair is to close just weeks after being criticised by a sheriff.
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The Edinburgh Crisis Centre will celebrate the official opening of its new, permanent location at 4 Smiths Place in Leith today.
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