20% cut to mental health funding ‘disturbing and deeply disappointing’
Lives will be put at risk by cuts to NHS funding for mental health services, experts and doctors have warned. In a letter to the Guardian newspaper, the Royal College
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Failure to fund could jeopardise social care reforms
Essential social care reforms designed to improve the lives of older people, carers, and disabled people could be jeopardised if the Government fails to fund them properly, local government leaders
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Northern Ireland groups to share a £660K lottery grants windfall
A cancer charity is one of 80 projects across Northern Ireland sharing a major grants windfall from the Big Lottery Fund. The small grants programme has awarded £9,996 to Action
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Oxfordshire care services get welcome boost following windfall
Oxfordshire County Council has been given a £4m windfall from central government and it intends to use some of the funds to support vital social care functions. The money has
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£33m allocated to tackle poverty and deprivation
The first community projects to benefit from an £80 million Stormont fund to tackle deprivation have been announced – almost three years after the initiative was launched. First Minister Peter
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Care leavers among those to benefit from £1m project grants
Children and young people are to benefit from almost £1 million in grants for projects throughout Scotland. A total of 32 organisations from Shetland to the Borders will receive a
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Who should pay for social care services?
Does it make sense to have separate funding systems for health and social care? And what should be the balance between the individual and the state in funding services? These
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Final call for £2000 learning networks funding
The National Sills Academy (NSA) for Social Care have made a final call for applications for learning networks funding. Registered Managers are commonly the lead professionals in care home and
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Social care is bearing the brunt of council cuts
Statistical manipulation disguises the fact that disabled people are being hit the hardest by cuts to benefits and services, by Simon Duffy
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New kinship care film launched by CHILDREN 1ST
A new DVD by CHILDREN 1ST featuring three kinship carers talking about their own experiences and explaining how the charity has supported them has been launched this month.
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