Children’s Secretary Ed Balls is to urge schools to teach teenagers how to handle their emotions as part of a drive to improve behaviour and has promised £14 million over four years to extend the social and emotional aspects of learning programme (Seal) running in primary schools into secondaries.

The family of a grandmother who fell and died after being left unattended at a nursing home was furious after being sent a £1,200 bill for her care. Dementia sufferer Olive Hitchings, 85, tumbled from her wheelchair and broke her leg just ten days after moving into the nursing home.

{mosimage}Riversway Nursing Home in Bristol was accused of ‘nelgect’ by council investigators and her family say she should not have been left alone and should have been belted into her chair to stop her standing up.

Her outraged son Anthony, 59, said he was disgusted the home is charging them, despite being at fault. Anthony, from Kingswood, Bristol, said: “They’ll get the money over my dead body. “It’s a pretty bitter pill to swallow because if this accident hadn’t taken place, my mother would probably still be alive today.

“I’m not going to phone and ask them to waive the payment – people need to know what happened at the home. I shouldn’t have to ring them because they neglected my mother. It’s not about the fact of having the money, because that is available to us.”

Olive, a former cleaner and bookmakers’ employee, moved to the home in early April following an 11-week spell in Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. Her family say she lost had her mobility and was forced to use a wheelchair.

She suffered the fall ten days later and was taken back to Frenchay Hospital, where she died two days later. The 66-bed nursing home was warned to make improvements to its practices after a meeting held to investigate the complaints. The meeting was attended by Riversway manager Angela Glover; Jill Cornelius, an inspector for the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and Kate Spreadbury, Bristol City Council’s safeguarding adults co-ordinator.