News Northern Ireland – Page 126

Category: News Northern Ireland

Programme sees foster children’s exam results improve

By BBC4th October 2011News Northern Ireland

Hundreds of children and young people in care are getting above-average exam results with help from a new programme, a charity has said.

Residents rescued amid care home blaze

By U.TV30th September 2011News Northern Ireland

Residents in a nursing home in Armagh have been rescued by emergency services after a fire broke out overnight. Police officers helped 27 elderly people to leave Greenpark private nursing home on the Keady Road, when the blaze broke out in a switch room just before 3am on Friday.

Fears for elderly after home-helps cut by 10 percent

By The Tyrone Times28th September 2011News Northern Ireland

THERE are fears that hundreds of local vulnerable people have been left to fend themselves after it was revealed that the local health board has cut the number of home helps by 136.

New residential care home to bring 100 jobs to village

By The Belfast Telegraph22nd September 2011News Northern Ireland

A new £3m residential care facility in Dunmurry is to create 100 jobs. The 44-bed Kilwee Care Home in Cloona Park in the village was officially opened by the Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Brian Heading.

Belfast ‘a child trafficking hub’

By The Belfast Telegraph21st September 2011News Northern Ireland

Human traffickers are using Belfast as a port of entry to the UK, it has been claimed.

Cuts ‘trap the disabled at home’

By The Belfast Telegraph17th September 2011News Northern Ireland

Disabled people have become prisoners in their own home due to cuts in welfare payments and support services, it has been claimed.

Mum’s plea over epilepsy care ‘chaos’

By The Belfast Telegraph8th September 2011News Northern Ireland

A mother whose four-year-old daughter takes up to 20 epileptic fits a day has expressed dismay at the lack of medical services for children with the condition in Londonderry.

Increase in misconduct of those working in NI social care

By BBC31st August 2011News Northern Ireland

An increasing number of people working in social care in Northern Ireland have been found guilty of misconduct, the BBC has learned.

Senior academic appointed to advise health and social care review

By Iain MacDonald25th August 2011News Northern Ireland

A senior University of Ulster academic is to advise a Stormont Executive commissioned Review of Health and Social Care Services in Northern Ireland.