Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has launched its Long Term Plan for the independent adult social care sector. With the General Election
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The University of Hertfordshire is leading a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded four-year study to improve how researchers, health and social care services can use existing data to
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Three people have been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences following police operations at care homes in South Wales. Gwent Police are investigating allegations that some staff at Danygraig
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A care home for older people in Livingston must make urgent improvements in the care experienced by vulnerable residents, inspectors have said. The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement
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No decision has been made on whether a bill compensating victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will become law before Parliament dissolves, a minister said. Victims of physical,
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A disgraced residential care home consultant has been jailed for four months for failing to give evidence at the inquest of a mentally-ill teenager in a landmark case. Duncan Lawrence,
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A consultant faces a possible jail sentence today after he admitted failing to cooperate at the inquest of a mentally ill teenager who killed herself while in care. Duncan Lawrence,
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Care home workers believe wearing pyjamas during night-shifts could help people with dementia know it is bedtime, according to a poll. Around one in 10 already don nightwear in the
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A major rethink is needed of the “broken” system underpinning elderly residential care provision, writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell has said. The Labour peer and former government voice of older
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Specialists have been given the go-ahead to swab the mouth of an elderly dementia sufferer so DNA tests can be carried out in a bid to establish whether he fathered
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