Northern Ireland’s social workers have been honoured at the 2016 Social Work Awards ceremony in Armagh this week. Hosted for the first time by the Southern Health and Social Care
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Scottish Care have announced this years winners from their 2016 Care Awards which took place at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow over the weekend. The Awards were presented as part
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The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) and Ofsted has agreed to share information with a view to improving each other’s intelligence of local authorities children’s services. The Protocol between the two
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An Alzheimer’s disease sufferer’s last year alive was living hell due to inadequate training for care staff, his daughter has said. Linda Jackson, 63, said she struggled to get good
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Almost 700,000 older people in need of some sort of care or support are being left to fend for themselves, a charity has warned. Age UK said 696,500 people who
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Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport Vaughan Gething AM is today launching a new training resource that will help provide better, more consistent care and support for people with
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Children and adults with disabilities and health conditions, no matter how complex, want to receive their care and support at home and in their local communities. This is what is
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A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the collapse of an £800 million NHS contract to outsource care of older and mentally ill people, the Commons spending watchdog warned. An influential
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Patients are a fifth more likely to die in hospitals where nurses are replaced with less-qualified staff, new research suggests. The study found patients were more likely to die and
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A widespread stigma surrounding care homes is crippling conversations about provision of care in later life and threatening to undermine their value, according to new research from Bupa UK.
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