Ministers have agreed to “look again” at a Lords amendment which seeks to broaden the definition of an unaccompanied child refugee. Solicitor General Robert Buckland said he had listened “very
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Adult social care spending is 9% lower than a decade ago, despite councils pumping extra cash into the system at the expense of other services, a new report has warned.
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Patients with pre-existing mental health conditions feel they are treated with less respect and dignity while staying in hospital, according to the results of a wide-ranging survey. This group reported
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A social worker who said a woman was failing to meet her son’s “emotional needs” because she had not taken him out for an ice cream and did not get
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Dementia sufferers at a Northern Ireland care home suffered a “horrific catalogue of inhuman and degrading treatment”, an investigation has found. Launching a scathing report into standards at Dunmurry Manor
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A rise in council applications to take children into care is making the workload of family courts “untenable”, a senior judge said. Lord Justice McFarlane, a Court of Appeal judge
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Fifty-year-olds with slightly raised blood pressure are at an increased risk of getting dementia in later life, a new study has suggested. Study participants had a greater risk even if
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Children are being pushed towards violent street gangs by a social care system that focuses money on a small number of the most serious cases, the Children’s Commissioner for England
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Adult social care is increasingly fragile and requires more short-term Government funding to tide it over until reform measures are introduced, a report warns. Despite a £2.3 billion boost this
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Immigration removal flights have departed from Britain with as many as three staff for every foreign national on board, a report reveals. On one journey to Germany in June last
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