A local coronavirus hero who has been given an MBE for helping vulnerable children during the pandemic feels he has already been rewarded “through the progression and development” of the
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Domiciliary care services continued to grow during the pandemic according to data from Skills for Care’s latest ‘The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in
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A teenager struggling with isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown took her own life, an inquest heard. Gabrielle Treharne, 17, was found dead at her home in Cannington, Bridgwater, Somerset, on
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A new drugs unit will be set up to help end illegal drug-related illness and deaths, the Government has announced. The Joint Combating Drugs Unit will combine multiple Government departments,
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Mandatory vaccination against coronavirus of care home staff is “unnecessary, disproportionate, and misguided”, academics have warned. Government plans to make Covid-19 jabs a condition of deployment for care home staff
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The Government has been urged to issue a full reply to a damning report which was published a year ago. A scathing inquiry into three NHS scandals, published in July
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More than 100 scientists and doctors have signed a letter accusing the UK Government of conducting a “dangerous and unethical experiment” and urging it to reconsider its plans to abandon
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Planned elective operations at one of the largest and busiest hospital trusts in the UK are having to be postponed after an increase in Covid-19 admissions. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
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A police watchdog has called for radical and urgent action to tackle the crime “epidemic” against women and girls. Councils, schools, health and social care bodies and all areas of
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Government advisers are to investigate the effect ending freedom of movement after Brexit is having on the social care sector and its workers. Home Office minister Kevin Foster wrote to
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