Baroness Michelle Mone has insisted ministers knew about her involvement with a PPE firm “from the very beginning”, as she faced calls to step back permanently from the House of
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Proposals to bring in professional registration of all staff in children’s homes are being considered in a bid to ensure young people “are kept safe, have their needs met and
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Baroness Michelle Mone has admitted she did not tell the truth about her links to PPE firm Medpro, but insisted that she and her husband have “no case to answer”.
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An independent mental health hospital has been placed in special measures after patients told inspectors that some staff could be vindictive and bullied them. Inspectors said they were shocked by
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A charity taking legal action against the Government over its use of a former RAF airbase as asylum accommodation said its efforts are a bid to “literally safeguard people’s lives”.
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Some kinship carers such as grandparents and siblings are set to be paid an allowance matching foster carers but campaigners said a new overall strategy is lacking the scale, ambition
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A care leader has questioned the Health Secretary’s claim that people within the sector are “broadly relaxed” about changes banning international care workers from bringing dependants when they come to
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All deaths will be reviewed by a medical examiner or coroner in a move which ministers hope will give bereaved families “greater transparency on the circumstances surrounding the death of
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Around one in three patients arriving by ambulance at hospitals in England last week waited more than 30 minutes to be handed over to A&E, figures show. NHS England data
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Councils have warned the Prime Minister of a surge in effective bankruptcies unless he makes a last-minute intervention to boost next year’s financial settlement for local government. A letter from
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