Prisoners and people who have been arrested are still being ill-treated in many cases in Scotland, according to a watchdog set up to prevent inhuman punishment. The European Committee for
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Labour would let low-paid workers take home more of their pay by replacing Universal Credit. Shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds set out the first details of his party’s
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A watchdog has launched legal action seeking to have a care home’s registration cancelled over “serious and significant concerns” about the quality of care. The Care Inspectorate said inspectors identified
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Scotland’s chief nursing officer Amanda Croft is standing down from her role after less than a year. The Scottish Government said she was leaving for personal reasons. Ms Croft (pictured),
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Young patients suffering with the debilitating effects of long Covid have urged people to get their vaccine. A new NHS video features three previously healthy people in their early 20s
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Asylum seekers were previously removed from the hotel where a five-year-old Afghan refugee fell to his death from a window because it was unfit for refugees to stay in, it
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A UK-wide antibody testing programme is to be launched for people who have contracted coronavirus, the Government has announced. The programme, which will offer tests to thousands of adults per
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Wales Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, has welcomed more than half a billion pounds of new funding for health and social services in Wales to deal with COVID. The Welsh Government
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Councils have called for more support amid a “harrowing” rise in deaths and serious harm of children linked to abuse or neglect in the year since England’s first coronavirus lockdown.
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A children’s services department has become the first in the country to make the leap from an inadequate rating to outstanding. The national first makes Sunderland one of only 18
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