A multimillion-pound Government fund will be used to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) who need vital support during the Covid-19 crisis. The Government will allocate £10
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The Government has “no current plans” to exempt foreign care workers from the NHS surcharge, the Foreign Secretary has said. Under immigration rules, workers coming to the UK from outside
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The Scottish Government is to introduce new powers to intervene in failing care homes during the coronavirus pandemic, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced. Speaking at the government’s daily briefing,
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Scotland has passed its coronavirus peak and should get its economy up and running before a second wave in winter, according to scientists. Professor Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke, of
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Beefed-up contact tracing to track the spread of coronavirus will begin in Northern Ireland next week. It was largely stopped last month based on “sound public health considerations” but will
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As part of a wider plan to attract more staff into the adult social care sector, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced a new national recruitment campaign
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised to address the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on care homes as England’s chief medical officer admitted there would likely be a “high mortality rate” in
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The Foreign Secretary has declined to commit to publishing the findings from a Government pandemic drill in 2016 amid questions being raised over how well prepared the UK was for
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British firms are set to send tens of thousands of items of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to Europe rather than the NHS due to a “lack of response from
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said deaths in care homes are not inevitable as new figures show they account for a third of all Covid-19 fatalities in Scotland, a rise
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