Tough new immigration rules have cleared their first Commons hurdle despite fears the plans could increase discrimination. The Immigration Bill was given a second reading 323 to 274, majority 49,
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Liberal Democrats fear a cap on care costs has been “abandoned” by the Government. Health minister Alistair Burt confirmed the introduction of the cap has been pushed back. And Lib
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Theresa May faced an angry backlash from business leaders and refugee charities for falsely “vilifying” immigrants in a bid to boost her own political career. The Institute of Directors (IoD)
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Social services and other agencies have been “using and abusing” the police for years to deal with mental health patients, according to the policing minister. Mike Penning criticised other services,
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Amid growing concern that most NHS providers are sliding into deficit, arguably we should be even more worried about social care providers. This is a complex and sprawling sector –
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The social care system will “crash” without an immediate injection of cash, former health minister Norman Lamb has warned. Mr Lamb said soaring care costs combined with NHS trusts facing
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The Care and Support Alliance has joined forces with the Association of Directors of Adult Services (ADASS), the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) and the NHS Confederation to call on the
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Nearly 113,000 council homes could be sold off across England onto the private market to help finance the Government’s controversial plans to extend the Right to Buy scheme, according to
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New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lived up to his campaign pledge of “a new kind of politics” by crowd-sourcing his first appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of
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Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Liverpool Wavertree Labour MP, Luciana Berger, as his ‘Minister for Mental Health’ to his shadow cabinet, Labour has announced. The post is a new creation of
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