Up to 1.5 million benefit claimants may be facing destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, a report by a former Labour minister has warned. Government is failing to track
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More than £54m will be made available to improve access to mental health services, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday. This additional investment will improve access to psychological therapies for
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A total of 276 sick and disabled Scots died last year while waiting for care packages to start, new figures have revealed. Motor Neurone Disease patient and campaigner Gordon Aikman
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Nearly £22m of grant funding has been awarded to organisations and projects which support vulnerable children, adults and older people by the Welsh Government, Health and Social Services Minister Mark
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An award-winning charity, which rescues women from forced marriage and hundreds of young people from radicalisation, faces closure in a matter of months if it does not receive further funding.
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People in Scotland are being urged to check on elderly relatives, friends and neighbours over the festive period. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Age Scotland’s offices in Edinburgh yesterday and
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A new agreement to improve the system of care and support for people in a mental health crisis has been signed by the Welsh Government, police forces, the NHS, councils
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An exhibition of art by the homeless is being organised to counter negative attitudes to rough sleepers and to help them regain their voice and dignity. University of Brighton psychologist
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More than two thirds of police forces in England and Wales are letting down vulnerable victims, a new report suggests. Four services were rated as “inadequate” for how they protect
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A council has said it is “unable to determine the exact circumstances” of how a grandmother suffered terrible injuries which her family believe were the result of multiple rat bites.
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