Carer hit and smothered woman, 90, to death after stealing from her, court hears
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A carer struck a 90-year-old woman over the head with a metal flask and smothered her to death with a pillow days…
Carers set for pay rise under Rayner’s workers rights law
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Care workers are set for higher pay and better working conditions under plans unveiled by the Government to set up a formal body that can bargain…
Fake sponsorships: Fraudulent care homes exploit UK crisis to defraud desperate Nigerians
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In March 2022, Mrs Funmilayo Buraimo-Danmusa received a phone call from a legal business partner in the United Kingdom, Olalekan Ayuba. Read…
English council may ask parents of children taken into care to pay half of costs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute cash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after…
British social care workers hit by real terms £3,000 wage cut
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Social care workers on the breadline have lost out on thousands of pounds due to below-inflation pay deals, new analysis shows. Read…
Health and care worker visa applications drop 83% after rule changes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of people applying to come to Britain on a health and care worker visa has dropped significantly after major changes…
Scrap one-word ratings for adult social care too, say councils
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Calls have been made for one-word ratings by the health watchdog for adult social care services to be scrapped just as they…
Social care chiefs sound alarm at Labour’s ‘deafening silence’ on sector
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Labour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis,…
Alarm at failure to inspect 60% of England homecare providers in four years or longer
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Care leaders have warned of a serious safety risk as research revealed 60% of homecare providers had not been inspected for at…
New ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants forcing health and care staff to return home
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new “hostile environment” for immigrants is putting off NHS and care staff from applying for jobs in the UK while forcing others to return…