Boris Johnson has secured MPs’ backing for his controversial £12 billion tax hike to pay for health and social care despite seeing his Commons majority cut. The House voted by
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The number of people waiting for social care services has risen by a quarter in three months amid a crisis of rising demand for care at home, staff shortages and
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Nursing shortages in the UK have left more than half a million people with cancer either unsupported or not supported enough, a charity has said. Macmillan Cancer Support is calling
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The Government must stop housing asylum seekers in “profoundly inappropriate” military barracks, a group of MPs and peers has said. The call comes after immigration minister Kevin Foster confirmed the
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Booster vaccines may not be necessary for everyone in Britain and rolling out third doses too quickly would be an “unnecessary burden” on the NHS, the head of AstraZeneca has
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A carer who spent £65,000 refitting their home after her husband’s stroke has claimed that people are being “grossly deceived” by the Government’s social care reform plans. Prime Minister Boris
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An Essex man who has just entered a care home faces losing his life savings and his property because new Government support will come too late to help him. David
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The size of the State, with higher taxes and more spending, is set to be permanently made bigger by the UK Government’s social care reforms, according to a think tank.
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Social care funding pledged by the Government for the next three years is “nowhere near enough”, sector leaders have said. Some £5.3 billion will go towards social care between 2022-23
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Police have made a renewed public appeal for a mother who has gone into hiding with her 10-year-old son after care proceedings were launched. Kelly Jefferies, 42, and her son
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