The Government has said it expects its mandatory vaccination policy to help reduce shortages from care home staff being off due to coronavirus, ahead of a feared exodus next week.
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Mental health support services for children and young people face a “domino effect” due to significant financial challenges facing organisations in the community, a coalition of groups has warned. Ministers
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The Government has launched a recruitment campaign to fill more than 100,000 empty roles in England’s social care sector. A TV advert and social media campaign will tell the public
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Peers have inflicted a decisive defeat on the Government in demanding it retain the triple lock on state pensions in the face of a “cost-of-living storm”. The House of Lords
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Including services such as adult social care and community justice in the proposed new National Care Service would be a “grave error”, ministers have been warned. The organisation Solace, which
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Ed Balls has held a myriad of job titles over the course of his career. But while a decade serving as a Labour MP culminated in his appointment as shadow
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More than three-quarters of the British public do not have faith in Boris Johnson’s plans to level up society, research suggests. Some 59% of people polled by the charity Hope
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The Government has been urged to invest significant extra funds in social care within weeks to help ease the “unbearable situation” faced by people with dementia and their families. Families
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Big Issue founder Lord John Bird is due to lead a debate in Parliament on Thursday asking for immediate action to prevent a mass homelessness crisis. Lord Bird is expected
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The Chancellor “missed an opportunity” to fix NHS workforce challenges, health leaders have said. The Budget documents state that: “The Government will provide hundreds of millions of pounds in additional
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