800,000 ‘not given help with social care’
Hundreds of thousands of older people in England who need social care are not getting any support from the state or private sector, campaigners say.
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Hundreds of thousands of older people in England who need social care are not getting any support from the state or private sector, campaigners say.
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Age UK predicts more than 1m will be without support by 2014
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CARE workers at the Elsie Inglis Nursing Home have been called “murderers” and chased down the street, employees have said.
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Government and social services departments are accused of failing to protect victims
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Former Children’s Secretary Ed Balls should pay compensation to ex-Haringey Children’s boss Sharon Shoesmith following the death of Baby P, according to the Appeal Court judges.
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Britain’s care homes face a deepening crisis as some private-sector companies that piled into the sector struggle with their financial miscalculations amid fresh evidence that they provide worse quality care than their non-profit rivals.
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I know we’re all supposed to hate boring old judges who want to stop us posting our witty, scabrous or downright furious observations on Twitter. It’s freedom of expression, innit? But it’s also just conceivable that the judiciary, on occasion, takes a longer and more measured view of controversial cases than the self-appointed tribunes of the people.
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VITAL services for Scots with HIV are under threat as councils make cutbacks to save money, the outgoing head of a leading Aids charity has warned.
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An Edinburgh private nursing home has been given a deadline to make “urgent and immediate improvements” to its standards of care or it faces closure.
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Scotland’s largest voluntary social care organisation has urged the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), government and health boards to maintain their investment in services despite the tough financial climate.
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