West London borough plans to hike charges for social care by hundreds
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteResidents in Hillingdon receiving social care may be set to pay hundreds more per year under new plans. Read More
Britain's social care crisis exposed: 20% of care homes are 'substandard' and failing
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThousands of Britain’s most voiceless and vulnerable are living in failing care homes, new figures reveal. Read More
Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThree sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: “The best health services should be available free for all….
Hundreds of children’s care places are costing councils more than £10,000 a week per child
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHundreds of children’s care home placements are costing councils over £10,000 a week, new figures obtained by The Independent show. Read More
Hospital discharges 'put strain on social care'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn increasing number of patients have been discharged from hospital despite still needing care, a report has found. Read More
Employers who flout visa laws and exploit foreign workers to face crackdown
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEmployers who flout visa rules could face lengthy bars from hiring foreign workers, as part of a crackdown on abuse and exploitation. …
Carer hit and smothered woman, 90, to death after stealing from her, court hears
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA carer struck a 90-year-old woman over the head with a metal flask and smothered her to death with a pillow days…
Carers set for pay rise under Rayner’s workers rights law
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCare workers are set for higher pay and better working conditions under plans unveiled by the Government to set up a formal body that can bargain…
Fake sponsorships: Fraudulent care homes exploit UK crisis to defraud desperate Nigerians
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn March 2022, Mrs Funmilayo Buraimo-Danmusa received a phone call from a legal business partner in the United Kingdom, Olalekan Ayuba. Read…
English council may ask parents of children taken into care to pay half of costs
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Reading Time: < 1 minutecash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after…