health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo care workers have been jailed after subjecting more than ten elderly and vulnerable residents to ‘humiliating and degrading’ treatment. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHigher care provider fees and stretched council budgets are leading to a “doom loop” for adult social care where there is less…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNigerians living in the United Kingdom have protested against rising cases of certificate of sponsorship scams in the country.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigrant workers who come to the UK to bolster the country’s care system are having to share beds, sleep rough, and are…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA care home nurse is to be struck off because “wide-ranging competency and language issues” were putting patients at risk.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Care Quality Commission has “lost its way” with inspections of care homes, hospitals and other facilities years out of date, its…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCare providers will descend on Westminster next month to demand the Government plug a ‘£2billion funding shortfall’ following the October Budget.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritain’s care homes are at ‘breaking point’ on funding amid ‘stretched’ staffing levels, owners and residents warned today amid fears the industry…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChildren’s services jointly run by two London councils have been awarded an Outstanding rating by Ofsted three times in a row –…