Introducing a National Living Wage for council staff and care workers needs to be considered in the wider debate about council funding, as analysis by the Local Government Association reveals
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Children’s hospices are suffering after seeing their statutory funding frozen or slashed this year, while adult hospices are also complaining of a lack of fair and sustainable funding. Hospice UK
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Cardiff, alongside partner universities Bangor, Swansea, and South Wales, has been awarded £2.7M to lead the ‘PRIME Centre Wales’ for Primary and Emergency Care Research. The funding from Health and
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Nearly £2 billion was cut from funding to help vulnerable children keep their lives on track in the last five years, according to leading charities. Drug and alcohol support along
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The Government will refuse to provide further public funds to a children’s charity unless its high-profile head steps down, according to reports. Kids Company chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh is under
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The Government’s planned £200 million cuts to public health budgets will harm the nation’s health, a number of leading charities and organisations have warned. In a letter to The Times,
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Charity campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh has denied her Kids Company charity is badly run amid reports the Government is pressuring her to stand aside. Ms Batmanghelidjh (pictured) told the BBC Radio
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A £10m investment to improve NHS services for major health conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke has been announced by Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething. The investment
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Northern Ireland Health Minister Simon Hamilton has announced that he will consult publicly on proposals for a new revenue grant scheme, which will be open to voluntary and community organisations
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Councils in England face cuts of £3.3 billion in central government funding next year, a new study has found. The Local Government Association warned that councils will have to make
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