Council’s Four Year Care Home Plan Unveiled
Highland Council’s administration has said it will commit to building new care homes and oppose the construction of new nuclear plants in the region.
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Drug-Related Deaths Soar In Fife
Fifteen drug-related deaths have been recorded in Fife in six months compared with just two during the same period last year.
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Lottery-Backed Project To Support Thousands Of Young Carers
Before leaving school today more than 8,500 children and young people throughout Northern Ireland will be carrying out tasks about which neither their school friends nor their teachers may possibly be aware. They do it every day, before school, after school and on weekends.
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Stopping Parents Smacking Could Change Scots Culture
Stopping parents from smacking their children will help “stem the trajectory of violence” which “shames” Scotland, one of the country’s most senior police officers said yesterday.
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Programme Will Help Disabled Find Work
A programme aimed at helping people with disabilities and illnesses find work is to be rolled out throughout Northern Ireland by next April.
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More Nursery Care To Save Parents Cash
Working parents in Scotland could save up to £250 a year under plans to increase free nursery education. Fiona Hyslop, the education secretary, said that every three- and four-year-old will be entitled to an extra five weeks of free nursery education from August.
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Schools To Help Children In Care
Children in care could receive help from a “virtual head teacher” under plans to boost their opportunities. A White Paper published today is expected to say the heads could oversee
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Tories Pledge ‘Independent NHS’
The Tories have pledged to hand day-to-day control of the NHS in England to an independent board, part of efforts to make it more autonomous. Members would be chosen by the health secretary and would be accountable to ministers, the party says.
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Dementia Cases To Escalate
Dementia sufferers across North Yorkshire are predicted to soar in numbers by 50 per cent over the next 14 years, according to new figures. Research by the Alzheimer’s Society has suggested that by 2021, there will be 12,699 people across the county with this kind of illness – a huge rise from the 8,456 in estimated sufferers today.
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Community Treatment Orders ‘Do Little To Help’
Community treatment orders (CTOs) do little to reduce arrests, hospital readmission rates or bed days in patients with mental illness, research has shown.
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