Care Home To Close After Pensioner Dies From Wheelchair Fall
A CARE home where a pensioner died after falling from her wheelchair is to close just weeks after being criticised by a sheriff.
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A CARE home where a pensioner died after falling from her wheelchair is to close just weeks after being criticised by a sheriff.
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The government must give more money to help Britain’s six million unpaid carers, MPs have said. The Commons work and pensions committee said people who looked after friends and relatives saved the taxpayer £87bn.
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The Edinburgh Crisis Centre will celebrate the official opening of its new, permanent location at 4 Smiths Place in Leith today.
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Social factors – rather than genetics – are to blame for huge variations in ill health and life expectancy around the world, a report concludes.
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THE Scottish Government has been warned it may have to put many of its promises on hold to pay off the rapidly escalating costs of free personal care for the elderly.
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The Lancashire Carers’ Forum is holding its annual conference for carers at the Woodlands Conference Centre, Chorley, next month.
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Organisations working in the disability sector in Dundee are being urged to take part in a nationwide charity research project.
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Statistics on Private Fostering arrangements in England: Year ending 31 March 2008 and include data from England. The SFR covers figures on children cared for and accommodated in private fostering
Read MoreTwo care workers with decades of service between them have vowed never to work in the profession again – after being prosecuted over a throwaway remark about a disabled resident in a residential home.
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AN Inverness’s council-run day centre has been ordered to bring in emergency measures following a damning report by Scottish Government watchdog the Care Commission.
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