Care groups and charities have welcomed the Government’s “vision” to improve social care but said more funding is urgently needed to deliver this and pull the sector “back from the
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The Government has announced a new repairs service to help older and disabled people live independently for longer in their own homes as part of key social care reforms. It
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One of the UK’s biggest care home groups plans to bring the national living wage increase in early and invest £17 million to boost carers’ salaries in a bid to
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More than 40,000 social care staff have left the sector over the last six months, analysis of Government figures shows, amid what a think tank is calling a “toxic mix
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A troubled boy’s placement in a children’s home is costing nearly £500,000 a year, a family court judge has said. The boy had been taken from the care of his
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The Scottish Government will increase the number of residential rehab beds in the country as it struggles with a drug-related deaths crisis that claims the lives of hundreds of people
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Boris Johnson urged people not to cancel Christmas parties or school nativity plays as he promised to “throw everything” at the booster vaccination campaign to tackle the spread of the
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Researchers are calling on people who have or have had a complex mental illness to take part in a survey that could help improve support and services in Scotland. Participants
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All people aged 18 and over are to be offered a Covid-19 booster vaccine as part of efforts to tackle the spread of the new Omicron variant. Millions more people
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Poverty in Wales would be halved if the Welsh Government established a universal basic income (UBI) system in the country, a major study has found. The research, carried out by
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