A new registered card scheme to help people with learning disabilities or a mental health condition has been launched in Wales. South Wales Police, Learning Disability Services and Mencap Cymru,
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Community Catalysts is a Community Interest Company established in January 2010 by and working in close partnership with the charity Shared Lives Plus, an organisation that promotes the effective provision
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Postal workers are to help a charity find vulnerable missing children and adults in a new partnership aimed at reuniting families. Royal Mail is joining forces with Missing People by
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Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister David Ford has welcomed the positive impact of the Registered Intermediaries Schemes in assisting vulnerable victims, witnesses and defendants in communicating more effectively. The Schemes began
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A vulnerable man was without bathing facilities for six months because care providers failed to monitor him, say two ombudsmen. The 31-year-old from Plymouth, who suffers from schizophrenia and Asperger’s
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London’s fire service is urging carers and social workers to be alert to the risk of fire after new figures revealed a third of those who died in accidental fires
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A new strategy to help cut the number of people committing suicide has been unveiled. The accompanying document outlines how the Scottish Government aims to continue a downward trend in
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The wilful neglect of patients could become a criminal offence in Scotland, the Health Secretary has said. Alex Neil is “minded” to introduce legislation which is already under consideration in
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