Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has complained to watchdogs amid concerns over discrimination at a nursery that refused a place for his young daughter. Mr Yousaf (pictured) said he and
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published data showing death notifications involving COVID-19 received from individual care homes between 10 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. This is accompanied by their CQC Insight
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A prisons watchdog has warned the Government against learning the “wrong lesson from the pandemic” as he said inmates were “not being rehabilitated while they are banged up”. In his
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A domiciliary care worker, based in Pontypool and Ebbw Vale, has been removed from the Register of Social Care Workers after she was convicted of stealing from a vulnerable service
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A watchdog is seeking to cancel the registration of a care home over “serious and significant concerns” about the treatment of residents. The Care Inspectorate had listed an improvement notice
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Sexual harassment has become “normalised” for schoolchildren, with around nine in 10 girls reporting incidents of sexist name calling and being sent unwanted explicit pictures or videos, a review has
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The Care Inspectorate has published a statistical bulletin which includes data on deaths from COVID-19 in care services across Scotland. The Bulletin follows a review by the Office of the
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A doctor has been ordered to repay almost £67,000 to the NHS for diverting stolen cheques to his own bank accounts, NHS fraud investigators have said. Dr Aled Meirion Jones,
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Government guidance on care home visits must be underpinned in law to protect the rights of residents and their families, according to a report. The Joint Committee on Human Rights
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The care regulator has said it is not aware of any care home in England that is failing to follow Government guidance on allowing visits. Peter Wyman (pictured), chairman of
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