Local authorities are using funds from the NHS to keep existing social care services afloat, it has been claimed. MHP Health, a healthcare consultancy, analysed how councils spent £1.5bn worth
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A charity has had to suspend the awarding of grants to low-income families in Wales as it waits for delayed funding from the Welsh government. The Family Fund, which relies
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A study into the causes of clinical depression is being given £4.7 million in the hope that new treatments can be developed. Over the next five years, researchers will look
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A five-year project helping children and young people in Wales exposed to domestic violence and abuse has been awarded £2m by the Big Lottery Fund. It is the largest single
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A scheme aimed at helping meet older people’s mental health needs is set to benefit from £500,000 funding under the Welsh Government’s £17.8m ‘Invest-to-save’ fund to transform public services in
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The health and social care systems are no longer fit for purpose, an independent commission established by The King’s Fund has concluded. The time has come, it says, for ‘a
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A charity that helps abused men is to receive almost £420,000 from a £12 million fund for survivors of domestic violence. The Big Lottery Fund cash is being awarded to
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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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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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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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