The number of people from ethnic minorities ending up in hospitals for mental health problems is rising year by year, and some groups are three times more likely to be hospitalised for mental illness.
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A police investigation has been launched into allegations of neglect at a care home in Westcliff. Officers have questioned the boss of Southend-based Strathmore Care, which operates Milton House, in Avenue, Road, Westcliff.
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Calls for an investigation into the transfer of Essex County Council-run care homes to the private sector have been blocked.
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A vulnerable man with learning difficulties who was brutally tortured and murdered by bullies was failed by all the agencies charged with his care, a review of his case has said.
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Elderly people are to be given money to pay for their own care in a move being hailed as one of the most radical welfare reforms in a generation.
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One of Ireland’s richest men has paid tribute to the thousands of carers and people who give up their time for others.
Beleaguered bank Northern Rock is being investigated by the Charity Commission, after being accused of exploiting a Down’s syndrome charity to make money for itself.
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Tens of thousands of people going through a severe mental health crisis are being deprived of the NHS treatment and support that was promised by the government, parliament’s spending watchdog disclosed today.
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A two-month strike which shut day care centres for adults with learning and physical disabilities across Glasgow has ended.
{mosimage}A narrow majority of the 250-plus social care staff, all members of Unison, voted yesterday to return to work after an offer by the city council on pay and gradings was accepted. All return to work on Monday, with a pledge that current earnings are protected. There had been some concern that the strikers would reject the deal, despite its recommendation by Unison leaders.
Advice by union officials not to strike until the local authority had published its blueprint for the reform of the day care service had been rejected at the outset of the action.
Union sources talked yesterday of a “wind of change” blowing through the council following threats that other social work departments were primed for their own walkouts, while some within the local authority spoke of “strike fatigue” within Unison.
Both sides are still poles apart in what has been achieved through the action.
Mike Kirby, Unison’s Glasgow branch secretary, said: “This settlement gives these people the grades they were looking for but our view is the council could have come forward with this weeks ago.
“It’s taken eight weeks for them to realise the original grade was wrong.”
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Childminders, care homes and nurseries are to get tough new ratings to help the public choose the best services, it was announced yesterday.
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