Care and outcomes for people with learning disabilities are still often below acceptable standards compared with the general population, a report into avoidable deaths has concluded. The proportion of such
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Nottingham City Council has become the latest local authority to issue a Section 114 notice, blaming its financial problems on real-terms cuts in Government funding and rising demand for services.
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Around six children in every classroom need mental health support, but many struggle to get the help that they need, experts have warned. A “perfect storm” of the Covid-19 pandemic,
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The social care sector has been too fragmented and must come together to “pool our forces” if it is to secure the funding and change needed for its future, the
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People with Covid-19 were discharged to care homes over fears about the NHS getting “clogged up”, the pandemic inquiry has heard. Professor Dame Jenny Harries (pictured), England’s deputy chief medical
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Michael Gove has apologised to victims and bereaved families for Government “errors” during the pandemic as he listed what he believed were the failings, including locking down too late. But
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The operation of a scheme designed to transfer unaccompanied child asylum seekers from the care of one council to another has improved in recent months, a High Court judge says.
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Health and care leaders have expressed their “frustration” that they cannot spend last-minute winter cash injections for discharging hospital patients on preventing people being admitted in the first place. In
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The Government is attempting to criminalise homelessness “via the back door” under proposed criminal justice reforms, a Conservative former minister has warned. Tracey Crouch (pictured) also described some of the
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) says it is confident it has done “all we realistically can” to identify victims of the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal after identifying more than
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