Social care is in “crisis”, badly letting down the elderly, vulnerable and those with the greatest needs, a union leader has warned. Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, said the
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A care worker accused of placing a plastic bag over the head of an elderly patient has told a court he held it in front of her face in a
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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will be viewed as being “incompetent” or as having “covered up” its handling of emails relating to claimant deaths, an MP has claimed.
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A retired teacher has become the sixth from a leading private school to be convicted for historic sexual abuse charges. Roger Martin, 83, of Great Dunham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, has
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The Children’s Commissioner for England has said billions of pounds being earmarked for tax cuts by the Tory leadership rivals should be used to “mend broken childhoods” instead. Anne Longfield
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Corporate lobbyists are “almost wetting themselves” at the prospect of the cash to be made from their clients gaining greater access to the NHS in post-Brexit trade deals, peers have
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A student paramedic has died following a collision between an ambulance and a car. The 31-year-old woman was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham but died from her injuries
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A prisoner’s family were told of his death in jail by other inmates using illicit mobile phones, a report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said. Rocky Stenning, 26, was
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Accountancy giant Deloitte has been fined £4.2 million by the Financial Reporting Council for its audit of Serco’s Geografix division over the outsourcer’s electronic tagging scandal. The accounting watchdog said
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A hormone therapy used to treat prostate cancer in men has been linked to an increased risk in dementia, new research has shown. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) suppresses male hormones
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