Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells has launched a consultation into the recommendations in the so-called ‘Donaldson report.’ Last month, the Minister published Sir Liam Donaldson’s report, ‘The Right Time,
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Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry is considering a package of measures aimed at protecting vulnerable workers who work on zero hours contracts. Officials from the Department for Employment
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NI Junior Ministers Jennifer McCann and Jonathan Bell today announced proposals on the way forward for new age discrimination legislation on the provision of goods, facilities and services. The Programme
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A former resident of a notorious boys’ home has welcomed a court decision to grant him permission to challenge the Government’s refusal to include the facility in its forthcoming child
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Abuse victims of a notorious boys’ home in Belfast will today mount a legal challenge against the Government’s refusal to order a statutory inquiry into the crimes committed there. A
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Midwives will be “disgusted” with a pay offer for health staff in Northern Ireland, it has been warned. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said the devolved government had made
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The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry has heard a nun was never been prosecuted, despite complaints against her by former residents of Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge care homes. Giving
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Forty-five potential trafficking victims were discovered in Northern Ireland last year. They claimed they were subjected to domestic servitude, labour or sexual exploitation, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. At
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There is a virtual “supermarket” for legal high drugs where abusers in Northern Ireland can access whatever they want, the head of Belfast’s effort to stamp out the threat has
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Northern Ireland Health & Social Care staff are being asked to take part in a nationwide initiative aimed at encouraging HSC staff to pledge to do something to improve their
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