The Chancellor has been accused of prioritising crumbling roads over the “crumbling social care and health system”. Charities have complained that carers and the homeless were ignored in the Budget
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The “deplorable” state of children’s support services is having a “profound impact” on the wellbeing of pupils, a school leaders’ union chief will warn. Evelyn Forde (pictured), president of the
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Almost half of children who become homeless have been forced to move schools – with a third missing more than a month of teaching, according to a new report. Leading
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Extra Government spending on social care is “unavoidable” to prevent other essential council services being “swallowed up”, a Conservative former cabinet minister has said. Damian Green’s warning came as he
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A seriously ill pensioner at the centre of litigation in a specialist court has been granted a wish to spend his “remaining time” at home with a pet bird. The
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The three candidates running to be Scotland’s next first minister are being urged to commit to making sure public services “remain a priority”. Leaders of the trade union Unison made
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SNP leadership hopeful Kate Forbes has said she is “hugely supportive” of her party’s National Care Service (NCS) proposals, but pledged to decentralise the approach to support local services. The
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The parents of a 16-year-old girl with disabilities who died after being severely neglected by them told a court they “lacked support” from authorities. Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 40, and Alun Titford,
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A mother and father who left their morbidly obese daughter in bed-ridden squalor have been jailed for gross negligence manslaughter. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described as “unfit
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The system for challenging decisions about social care can be confusing, lengthy, complicated and stressful, an inquiry has found. Many people – often those who are already vulnerable – can
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