Healthcare regulators in the UK are largely ineffective and are costing around £600 million a year to run, according to a report from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). There are
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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has published ‘The Prevalence of Autism (including Aspergers Syndrome) in School age Children in Northern Ireland 2015’. Key Facts and Figures:
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Scottish Care has published a Supplementary Report to their research report on recruitment and retention, ‘In the Front Line’, which was published in June 2015. This Supplementary Report builds on
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The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has called for a review into how dying, death and bereavement are dealt with across government departments and public bodies. The calls are
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The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board has published a report into child sexual exploitation in the county. The report is a ‘stocktake’ of the good progress made by all organisations in providing
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Abstract Young people in care and care leavers want to know that their corporate parents (the local authority, collectively with other relevant services) will care for them and do their
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Crime figures ‘lowest since 1981’ but police stats show sex offences increase. Crime has fallen to its lowest level since 1981, according to the national victims’ survey, but police recorded
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Only a third of police cases involving vulnerable children are handled to a good standard, inspectors have found. Of the 576 cases involving vulnerable children across eight forces in England
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This Carers Trust report examines support plans for carers under the Better Care Fund and finds that there is a widespread inconsistency in the help provided. There was a requirement
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Every youngster up to the age of 12 should be entitled to up to 50 hours a week of free or subsidised childcare, an ambitious new report has suggested. The
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