The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told The Regard Group – Domiciliary Care Cornwall, that further urgent improvements are needed following an inspection which found people using the service were
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Wales Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, has welcomed more than half a billion pounds of new funding for health and social services in Wales to deal with COVID. The Welsh Government
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of attention in the UK has focused on the challenges of continuing to deliver healthcare. But a related field – social work
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Gunman Jake Davison received mental health support during the coronavirus lockdown, it has emerged. The 22-year-old, who shot dead five people during one of the UK’s worst mass shootings, had
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Scotland recorded 805 deaths in 2020 which were likely to be suicides, a slight decrease from the previous year. Annual figures from the National Records of Scotland showed the number
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An inspection that led to the closure of a mental health hospital found examples of unprofessional and abusive staff behaviour, including two incidents caught on CCTV in which doors were
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Two-thirds of people in Britain support increasing National Insurance contributions to pay for social care reform, a poll has found. Ipsos Mori’s latest Political Monitor poll also revealed 49% of
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A Nottinghamshire man was barred from visiting his mother in her care home after he raised concerns about her welfare, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. The
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Scotland’s new national care service could be expanded further than first anticipated and take control of drug and alcohol services, children and young people and social work, under Government plans.
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Skills for Care has announced the launch a new vision which sets out their strategic aims for adult social care over the next three years. The new strategy sets out
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