Charity Social Bite plans village for recovering addicts in Dundee
A £2 million village for recovering addicts is to be built in Dundee. The charity Social Bite has copied its model already in use in Edinburgh to support homeless people
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King’s charity offers bagpipe lessons in bid to improve lung conditions
The King’s charity has launched a health initiative promoting playing the bagpipes to improve certain lung conditions and breathing difficulties. The Prince’s Foundation pilot programme, believed to be the first
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Ministers viewed care homes as not ‘part of the state’ and were reluctant to intervene, inquiry hears
Care homes were seen as private organisations which should look after themselves early on in the pandemic by a Government reluctant to intervene, the boss of a major older people’s
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Woman and older people less likely to receive gold-standard heart care, study suggests
Woman and older people are less likely to receive gold-standard NHS care for heart problems compared with men and younger people, a study suggests. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) slammed
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Charities accuse Hunt of dehumanising disabled people with benefits crackdown
Jeremy Hunt faced claims of dehumanising disabled people and launching an “assault on the poor” by announcing tougher rules on benefits. The Chancellor (pictured) said there is a need to
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Support for care leavers welcomed but ‘sharp shift to early services needed’
Further support from the Government to help children leaving care has been welcomed but charities said more help is needed earlier otherwise “thousands more” children will end up in care.
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Children’s charity to close after 81 years citing ‘pernicious economic context’
A pioneering national children’s charity is to close after 81 years of campaigning, as it warned many other similar organisations were facing the same “mathematical impossibilities” of rising costs. Announcing
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Princess of Wales praises ‘really precious’ work of youth intervention charity
The Princess of Wales has praised the “really precious” work of a youth intervention charity during a visit in central London. Kate met with frontline staff and young people at
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Charity seeks neurological care review as patient concerns ‘not taken seriously’
Patients with neurological conditions struggle to get a diagnosis and feel doctors do not take their symptoms seriously, a charity has said. In a report published on Wednesday, the Brain
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Scottish Government plans on tackling poverty a ‘timid step forward’, says charity
A leading children’s charity has said Humza Yousaf’s Programme for Government represented a “timid step forward” in the fight against poverty. The First Minister said he would push to end
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