People with learning disabilities across the country are set to benefit from £25 million of funding to help them live more independently in their own homes. Health Minister David Mowat
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Claims that a flagship intervention project had turned around the lives of 99% of England’s most troubled families were misleading, according to a Commons committee. The Government also overstated the
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The Government is paying for its 30-hour childcare giveaway by “stealing” from state-run nurseries, an MP has said. Free care given to three and four-year-olds is set to double from
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Care Forum Wales chair Mario Kreft has warned that the social care sector will collapse unless the Welsh Government invests more money in independently-run care homes and domiciliary care. He
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There is a desperate need to bring new money into the social care system but existing proposals will not deliver this, says Professor Les Mayhew from the Cass Business School
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Jeremy Corbyn has written to the Prime Minister calling for urgent talks on social care funding. The Labour leader is urging Theresa May to provide “emergency top-up funding” to protect
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An extra £10 million is being invested by the Scottish Government to help people with mental health difficulties at an early stage. The money will be spent over two years
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Holyrood Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has hit back at opposition politicians who branded his budget a “con” which will see the “heart ripped out of public services”. In an “historic
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Children are being left “at risk of harm” because of the Government’s failure to develop a “credible” plan to improve protection services, MPs have warned. The influential House of Commons
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Increasing numbers of people who wish to spend their final days at home have been supported to do so, according to the latest Welsh Government annual report into the care
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