Home Secretary James Cleverly has outlined a raft of new restrictions on legal migration which he said will slash the number of people arriving in Britain by 300,000 a year.
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Nine out of 10 care workers cannot afford to take time off sick, research suggests. A survey by the GMB union found that two in five would not even take
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The social care sector has been too fragmented and must come together to “pool our forces” if it is to secure the funding and change needed for its future, the
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Health and care leaders have expressed their “frustration” that they cannot spend last-minute winter cash injections for discharging hospital patients on preventing people being admitted in the first place. In
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Relying on international recruitment to plug gaps in the health and social care workforce is “unsustainable”, trust leaders said, as figures showed health and care worker visas have more than
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Jeremy Hunt has gone from “hero to zero on social care”, according to campaigners who branded the absence of any new funding commitments to the struggling sector “shameful”. The only
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The Prime Minister has said “working people are paying the price” for Labour councils’ “financial mismanagement” after Nottingham City Council said it faced a £23 million in-year budget gap. Rishi
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Nearly a quarter of a million people in England were waiting to have their care needs assessed by the end of summer, according to a report which warns of ongoing
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The Government has been urged to end the “evil practice” of autistic people being confined to inpatient mental health hospitals. Peers in Westminster have expressed disappointment that the King’s Speech
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Ongoing strikes and record-high waiting lists are just two of the challenges facing the new Health Secretary Victoria Atkins. The former financial secretary to the Treasury was appointed to her
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