A study which saw dementia patients undergo music therapy resulted in improvements to their symptoms and wellbeing as well as a reduction in disruptiveness to staff at their care home.
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Entries are now open for Skills for Care’s Accolades awards acknowledging the sectors outstanding employers and individuals delivering high quality care. The Accolades gives entrants the chance to gain recognition
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A new report from the Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care (CAAPC) has published it’s interim findings into the provision of acute inpatient psychiatric beds and alternatives to admission available for
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The Government is delaying plans to introduce a £72,000 cap on social care costs until April 2020, the Department of Health has announced. Limits on the amount an individual paid
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More than 60 per cent of NHS trust finance directors think controls on agency spending announced in June will not significantly reduce the amount spent on agency staff, according to
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Crime figures ‘lowest since 1981’ but police stats show sex offences increase. Crime has fallen to its lowest level since 1981, according to the national victims’ survey, but police recorded
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Dozens of courts could be closed under an overhaul of the justice estate. The Government has announced a consultation on proposals to shut 91 courts and tribunals in England and
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Social services staff have failed to prove that a five-month-old baby suffered broken bones as a result of an assault after a family court judge heard that he was probably
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Too many young people in care are not receiving the support they need when they leave to start life on their own, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned. The National
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Prisons are failing to effectively rehabilitate criminals, Michael Gove will say today as he laments Britain’s “horrifying” failure to reduce re-offending rates. The Justice Secretary will float the idea of
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