health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lack of children’s social workers an increasing risk to the department achieving its objectives, amid persistently high vacancy rates and use of…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Labour has abandoned plans for an £86,000 lifetime care spending cap, claiming the Tories left the scheme ‘unfunded’ despite it being due…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A nursing associate has been suspended for a year for slapping a dementia patient on the neck, a medical regulator has ruled. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute   When people think of care in later life, they often assume it will be provided in a residential care home. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute More than a hundred migrants and their families face being in Britain illegally after the company which sponsored them to come to…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A homecare agency where staff did not understand the words “bruise or “infection” has been forced to shut down. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of agency staff could leave the NHS and social care services in the next two years, new research has suggested.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Akhil Jenny was living in a small town in southern India, struggling with crippling debts, when a work contact offered him a…

Reading Time: < 1 minute British social care agencies have been accused of exploiting foreign workers, leaving migrants living on the breadline as they struggle to pay off…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Old people should be encouraged to have sex in care homes if they want to, a new study suggests.  Read More