A company that provides care at home is aiming to more than double its staff this year by recruiting one new worker for each day of 2022. Scottish firm HRM
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The publication of an investigation into the contact agencies had with 16-month-old Star Hobson before she was murdered by her mother’s girlfriend has been delayed. A Local Child Safeguarding Practice
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Unmet need is “paralysing” health and social care services and the requirement for frontline staff to be vaccinated against coronavirus must be abandoned, a social care boss has warned. The
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Money is to be given to health and social care students to help them complete their studies and go into the sector, the Welsh Government has announced. The £1.8 million
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Specialist online courts should be set up to deal with domestic abuse cases, a report has recommended. The Virtual Trials National Project Board said that creating such courts could increase
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Council workers are helping medical staff on the wards as a health board’s hospitals face “exceptional” demand, officials said. NHS Lanarkshire said staff from North and South Lanarkshire councils will
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Richard Meade has been appointed as the new director of Carers Scotland following the retirement of Simon Hodgson. Meade was formerly the Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Scotland at
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Health Minister Robin Swann has announced Professor Ray Jones is to lead a review of children’s social care services in Northern Ireland. Professor Jones (pictured) will be assisted by an
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A former justice secretary has called on the Government to grant his “abiding” wish by reforming the law to help autistic people who are kept in mental health units against
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The long-term underpayment of state pensioners, an unknown number of whom will have died without receiving what they were owed, is a “shameful shambles”, according to a public spending watchdog.
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