Sick, Suicidal – And Locked Up In Jail
A shocking new report claims that too many of the 4,300 women in Britain’s prisons are vulnerable and a danger to themselves – and already this year two have taken their own lives.
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Category: Care News
New Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants
Home Secretary John Reid will this week launch a drive to deny illegal immigrants the benefits of living in the UK. Immigration minister Liam Byrne said the initiative would involve a cross-Government effort to ensure that illegals cannot get housing, healthcare or work.
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Scandal Of Child Heroin Dealers
Child dealers of heroin, cocaine and other banned substances are being arrested at the rate of one every four days in the latest sign that Scotland is in the grip of a drugs epidemic. More than 300 children – some as young as 10 – have been charged with supplying in the past three years and a total of 20kgs of drugs seized by police.
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Jamieson Warns Councils As Youth Crime Goes Up Again
Scotland’s army of persistent young offenders has swelled to another record high. Figures released yesterday showed a 6% rise in the number of children classed among the country’s most troubled and troublesome.
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Council Scraps £1 Payments Made To Adults In Day-Care
A small cash payment made to hundreds of adults with learning disabilities attending day-care centres is to be scrapped – to save £42,000. The move has been described as “callous” and guaranteed to cause massive upset among some of Glasgow’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Elderly Brothers Beaten Up In Their Own Home
Two brothers in their 80s yesterday described how they attempted to fight off armed robbers who beat them in their own home. In the latest horrific crime against the elderly, three masked men, armed with a gun and a bat, entered the brothers’ house n Drumaness, where they proceeded to threaten the two brothers, Bill and Tommy Killen, ransack their home and flee with a sum of cash.
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Kids’ Booze Timebomb
Welsh children as young as 11 are on the rocky road to alcoholism, we can reveal. A special investigation by Wales on Sunday has unveiled an increasing number of young kids under the age of 18 being treated in A&E hospital wards for shocking levels of alcohol abuse.
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Paedophile’s Sentence A ‘Betrayal’
A children’s charity yesterday slammed a two-year jail sentence handed to a paedophile who groomed a 14-year-old girl over the internet. Old enough to be his victim’s grandfather, 54-year-old Gary Scutchings posed as a girl called Sophie to win her confidence before admitting he was a man and persuading her to send topless photos.
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Disabled Workers’ Changes Protest
Hundreds of disabled workers staged a protest as part of a campaign to prevent the closure of their factories. Around 300 people marched through Cardiff to highlight a review of Remploy factories, the biggest employer of disabled workers in Britain.
Island’s Elderly To Be Given Free Care
Thousands of pensioners are to be freed from the old-age poverty trap in a pioneering scheme of free home care. The plan is being introduced for the Isle of Wight. If successful, it could be extended to other parts of the country.
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