Breaking The Cycle Of Social Exclusion
Gordon Brown’s endorsement of nurse-family partnerships could help boost the life chances of some of the most socially excluded children in society, writes Pat McFadden.
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22,000 Sign To Keep Brain Surgery Units
Protesters against plans to merge Scotland’s four neurosurgery units are to deliver a 22,000-name petition to Holyrood, amid growing fears that the move would cost lives.
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Number Of Children On Risk Register Soars By 13%
Record numbers of young people are being put on the child protection register in Scotland, with an increase of 13 per cent in a year, a new report has revealed.
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Girls Are More Likely To Self Harm Than Boys
Teenage girls in Scottish secondary schools are more than three times more likely than boys to deliberately harm themselves, according to a new study.
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£10m Monmouth Care Village Given Go Ahead
PSP Healthcare, the rapidly expanding elderly nursing and care home group managed by brothers Preyen and Shrien Dewani together with their father Prakash, are delighted with the recent planning permission for a pioneering Care Village at the site of their leasehold Nursing home in Monmouth, South Wales.
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Craegmoor Refinancing Paves Way For ‘Exit’
Craegmoor Healthcare, one of the UK’s biggest care home operators, has completed a £255m refinancing that opens the door for a potential sale of the business.
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Leicester Care Home Boss Stole From Vulnerable
A care home deputy manager stole cash from residents with learning difficulties and misused his employer’s credit card.
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Gloucestershire Blackspot Is Wrong Place For Care Unit
A Care home’s application to take over a building next to a notorious A48 accident blackspot has been refused planning permission.
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The ‘Sandwich Generation’ Who Fill Caring Gap
A generation of men and women are struggling to care for children, grandchildren, ailing parents and hold down a job at the same time, according to a new report.
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Ministers Drop Plan For Experts To Brief Rape Juries
The government is to abandon a controversial proposal to use expert witnesses to brief juries on the “myths” surrounding rape after judges warned the plan could lead to miscarriages of justice, the Guardian has learned.
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