A “worryingly uncaring attitude” from jail staff and healthcare professionals led to the death of a diabetic female inmate in an isolation unit, the prisons watchdog has found. The 45-year-old
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A Salford woman with autism was left without proper support after the city council failed to review her care plan for more than five years, the Local Government and Social
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Routine safety checks on the dangers offenders could pose to children, their partners and the public are not being carried out as probation officers buckle under the pressure of overwhelming
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The nominees for this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards have been announced. 94 practitioners, social work teams and organisations from across England have been shortlisted this year in
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The planning of health and social care services across East Renfrewshire is improving, inspectors have said today. A joint inspection which focused on the strategic planning of health and social
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Fewer than one in five local authorities have a dedicated appeals process for social care, according to new research by Independent Age, the older people’s charity. This means the only
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Scottish Care, the representative body for Scotland’s independent care home sector, has announced details of the finalists for their 2019 National Care Home Awards. The awards, which will form part
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Tory former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said doctors, nurses and midwives are “terrified” of speaking out about baby deaths because of a “blame culture” within the NHS. Speaking on Baby
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Maternity services provided by an NHS board have a “long way to go” before they can be declared safe for mothers and babies, according to a review panel. An independent
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Children with special needs are being let down by a system that is meant to support them, an ombudsman has warned. Families with youngsters that have special educational needs and
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