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Staff at homelessness charity start month-long strike in pay dispute

Trade union members at homelessness charity St Mungo’s have started a month-long strike in response ...

Care Headlines

CQC rates Lincolnshire care home inadequate and places it in special measures

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated The Beeches care home in Lincolnshire inadequate and ...

Children Headlines

Boost to childcare payments marks first step in major expansion

The government has announced that Universal Credit’s maximum childcare payments will rise nearly 50% – ...

Headlines Young People

Report calls for major redesign of Scottish children’s hearings system

A new report on Scotland’s Children’s Hearings System has called for historic reform to its ...

Children Headlines

Government childcare plans will disproportionately benefit better-off families, report shows

The government’s planned £4bn investment in childcare will disproportionately benefit higher income families unless it ...

Children Headlines

Children’s care outsourcing linked to unstable out-of-area placements – study

Researchers at Oxford University have identified a link between the outsourcing of children’s services to ...

Headlines Health

Welsh government launches new scheme to improve GP services for veterans

A new scheme has been launched to enable GPs in Wales to register to become ...

Children Headlines Mental Health

Report highlights ‘unsafe’ paediatric wards for children with complex mental health needs

Children and young people exhibiting high-risk behaviours are being cared for in NHS paediatric wards ...

Care Headlines

Implementation of children’s social care strategy unambitious and slow, Parliament states

The government’s implementation of its children’s social care strategy is unambitious and slow, a parliamentary ...

Children Headlines

Low self-esteem and body image harm teenage mental health, study shows

Promoting positive body image and self-esteem among children could help to reduce poor mental health ...