One of the country’s biggest not-for-profit providers of care in the community is pulling out of the market. Housing And Care 21 works with 150 local authorities to provide care
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Family courts need to stop believing the “myth” that men with a history of abusing women can be good fathers, an MP has said. Labour’s Angela Smith said the “discredited”
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The new chairwoman of the national inquiry into child sexual abuse will earn £185,000 a year. Professor Alexis Jay, who was named as the fourth head of the probe last
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Social workers play a vital role in preventing mental health crises and should be given more scope to practice their skills, an inquiry into mental health services in England has
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The Department of Health has now opened bidding for the £25 million fund to help people with learning disabilities live independently. The fund is aimed at creating a range of
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A union is taking a legal case on behalf of home care workers, saying they are paid less than half the minimum wage. Seventeen home care workers employed across the
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Rationing is rife across the NHS, with patients suffering cutbacks to treatment and expensive drugs, a major survey of doctors has found. The research, for the Press Association and ITV,
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The failure to secure a single conviction for female genital mutilation (FGM) has been condemned as “lamentable” by a Commons committee. MPs warned the practice was a “hidden crime” which
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“Secret” plans to close underfunded A&E departments and hospitals could be used as a stalking horse for privatisation, Labour has claimed. Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott said the Government’s plans
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Elderly people are bearing the brunt of cuts to social care, according to a new report, which also warned that increasing numbers of care homes would go bust. The study,
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