The independent Parliamentary Review interim report on Health and Social Care in Wales today calls for new models of care to be trialed across Wales. Describing the case for change
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A cap on care costs and an asset threshold will be included in the Government’s social care funding consultation, a health minister has said. But Tory frontbencher Steve Brine stopped
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Perpetrators of domestic violence should serve a full prison sentence rather than being released early, the House of Lords has been told. Tory Baroness Manzoor said society must have “zero
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Labour has put further pressure on the Government’s benefit cap after new figures showed around 20,000 families were affected by a policy ruled unlawful by the High Court. New analysis
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Aggressive teenage boys will be targeted to stop them turning into abusers under a £17 million wave of projects to tackle domestic violence, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced. Funding
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A total of 10 jobcentres across Scotland are to close, including six in Glasgow, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed. Some smaller jobcentres will be merged with
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Theresa May has been urged to intervene to stop a domestic abuse victim’s family being deported, amid genital mutilation fears for the woman’s daughter. SNP MP Hannah Bardell described the
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The number of disabled people either homeless or at risk of being made homeless has soared over recent years. Scottish Labour analysis of official figures revealed that in 2013/14 there
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Benefit claimants are being asked their views on new legislation that will establish Scotland’s first welfare system. The Social Security Bill introduced last week will give ministers the power to
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A new law tackling so-called revenge porn has come into effect across Scotland. The offence will cover situations where someone shares filmed or still images of another person in an
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