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Care agencies to become a thing of the past

A new mobile app has been launched to help connect individuals seeking care, companionship or support with self-employed care workers.

Headlines Physical Disabilities

Will learning disability and autism training for health and care staff improve?

This week the government launched a consultation on a code of practice that sets out

Headlines Physical Disabilities

Essex mental health inquiry given power to force witness testimony

An inquiry into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex will become statutory after

Headlines Health

Innovators working on projects to transform living with dementia awarded over £1m

The semi-finalists of The Longitude Prize on Dementia to support the development of technologies for

Children Headlines

Over 500,000 Pupils in England attend unsafe schools, watchdog warns

New research from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found the government does not have

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Trading picket lines for painkillers: Nurses strikes are set to end

Yesterday, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced that members had failed to vote in

Children Headlines

A plane ticket for a school jumper: Children’s uniform costs have skyrocketed

Research from a children’s charity has found parents are spending a small fortune on school

Care Headlines

Researchers kickstart the future of health and social care dialogues

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have announced

Headlines Recruitment & Retention

Migrant care staff are ‘exploited on a grand scale’, union says

Unison claimed foreign care staff who have been invited to the UK to help the chronic worker shortage are only being paid £5 an hour.

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Children’s care pressures leading to more unregistered placements, says Ofsted

Ofsted’s annual report has warned that pressure on children’s social care is leading to increasing

Adult Headlines

Report shows older people are missing out on valuable social work

Research published by the University of Bristol has exposed features that are preventing older people

Children Headlines

Coroner warns new health secretary over lack of paediatric mental health beds

A coroner has written to the new health secretary after an inquest concluded that a

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Treasure in the scars: exposing the disparity of mental health support

In 2019, Patrick Regan OBE, set up his own mental health support system after he

Headlines Health

Study investigates premature death of Autistic people in the UK

A new study has confirmed that Autistic people experience reduced life expectancy – but that

Headlines Physical Disabilities

PDA Autistic people experiencing poor mental health and service barriers

Autistic people with pathological demand avoidance (PDA) experience poor mental health and barriers to accessing

Headlines Health

Fresh government pay offer could end NHS consultant strikes

The British Medical Association (BMA) said consultants have been offered a new deal which could