Charities say they are continuing to see widespread problems with the behaviour of bailiffs towards vulnerable people in financial difficulty, despite a crackdown on the issue. Bodies including StepChange Debt
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Legal measures designed to safeguard some people detained in care facilities are “failing those they were set up to protect”, a new review has found. The current system for detaining
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Uber taxis could soon be used to transfer non-emergency patients to and from hospital after a deal was struck between an NHS trust and social care company Cera. The deal
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A council has lost a legal bid to gain parental rights over a child whose parents have learning difficulties. The child’s parents appealed to the UK Supreme Court after Scotland’s
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More than 20,000 allegations of abuse by home care workers against elderly and vulnerable people have been made in the last three years, figures show. Data obtained by the BBC
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NHS doctors’ experiences of “grave pressure” they face while working in the health service have been laid bare in a new report. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said its
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has endorsed a new online toolkit developed by researchers at Keele University, which aims to prevent falls amongst the elderly that
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People with autism, learning disabilities and mental health issues – and their carers – often have to face the challenge of having a lack of continuity of social workers. It
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There is a “possibility” that cuts to health and social care could be linked to tens of thousands of “excess deaths”, a new research paper suggests. In 2015 there was
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The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sarah Rochira, is encouraging care sector contributions to a review of the quality of life and care for older people in residential and nursing
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