health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround one in five care homes is failing, shock figures reveal. Some 2,662 of 14,410 facilities under the jurisdiction of the Care…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMinisters have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Australian police officer charged with tasering a 95-year-old care home resident acted in a “grossly disproportionate” way, prosecutors in the case…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere has been a staggering increase of over 100 per cent in the number of modern slavery cases reported in the UK’s care industry in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA care home has launched an adopt a grandparent scheme in a bid to tackle ­loneliness among the elderly. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCare operators have been accused of “shocking abuse” of migrant workers who are allegedly being forced to pay back thousands of pounds…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Government has no plans to remove care workers from the shortage occupation list to cut immigration despite calls from Tory MPs, Downing Street said. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK risks becoming highly reliant on overseas care workers after nearly 58,000 visas were issued for the sector last year, a…