Allowing hospital trusts to run controversial CATS centres could use up vital NHS funds and see hospitals fail to hit waiting time targets, it was claimed today.

An Exmouth brain injuries day-centre has been given a week to vacate its premises, and the carers say their patients have nowhere else to go. Headway Devon has used the Marjorie Moore centre at Danby House, run by Devon County Council, in Mudbank Lane for weekly Thursday-morning sessions since 2000.

The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced it has appointed a new chair. Michael Leadbetter is to join the organisation from the beginning of April and brings a wealth of experience from across the children and young people’s sector.

The Crown Prosecution Service is to investigate why fewer than one in 10 anti-Semitic incidents results in prosecution, the Government will announce today. The review follows criticism by MPs that the judicial system is failing Jews, who are more vulnerable to attacks and abuse than at any time for a generation.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has welcomed the Home Office’s confirmation that a new advisory body will be launched to help inform UK immigration policy. 

New measures to lift thousands more children in the UK out of poverty by getting more parents into work have been announced today by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton.

Patients with dementia are dying early because they are being prescribed sedative drugs inappropriately in nursing homes, warn researchers. A five-year investigation revealed the antipsychotic drugs were being used as a ‘chemical cosh’ to control patients, contrary to expert advice.