health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCouncils across the country are spending £744 million providing social care for asylum seekers, according to a study by the Taxpayers’ Alliance,  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn elderly woman’s carer stole her savings and splashed nearly £50,000 on holidays and luxury items, a court heard. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHundreds of children have been placed in illegal residential care homes due to chilling failures, a damning report has found.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute  A Bangladeshi man who claimed he was coming to Britain as a care worker ended up serving curry in an Indian…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigrant workers in Britain’s care homes are being taught what toast is and how to “recognise a knife”. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of children’s homes in England has reached a record high – as Ofsted warns providers are focusing on cheaper housing…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA carer is on the run in Tenerife after plundering a six-figure sum from a “cash cow” pensioner she kept as a “caged…

Reading Time: < 1 minutePrivate firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years  Read More