health and social care

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…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA carer who was overpaid by almost £10,000 has been rapped for failing to report the mistake to bosses. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA move to enable unpaid carers to take leave from their day jobs to help dependents is set to become law after…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe value of unpaid care in England and Wales is almost equivalent to a second NHS, according to a new research estimate….