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Residents with alpacas at the Asra House Residential Care Home in Leicester (Sanctuary Care/PA)

Smiles all round as alpacas surprise residents at Leicester care home

June 23 2022

More than a hundred young people with experience of being in care were gathering to mark the It’s Our Care Day of Action (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Children in care ‘moving between placements a thousand times every week’

June 22 2022

Jackie Baillie has demanded that the SNP uphold its promise on social care charges (Jane Barlow/PA)

Jackie Baillie: SNP must uphold manifesto promise on social care

June 22 2022

Plans for a National Care Service for Scotland have been described as the ‘biggest power grab’ since devolution. (Steve Parsons/PA)

Bill for National Care Service ‘biggest power grab since devolution’, says union

June 21 2022

A National Care Service bill has been published by the Scottish Government (Peter Byrne/PA)

Humza Yousaf: National Care Service Bill will end ‘postcode lottery’

June 21 2022

The Buckinghamshire-based nurse is aiming to complete the marathon challenge by August 28, averaging 46 miles on her bike per day (Francesca Lennon/PA)

Nurse cycling 3,200 miles to every children’s hospice in UK for charity

June 19 2022

Scottish Labour said figures show more than 120,000 patients have returned to hospital within a week of being discharged since 2018 (Peter Byrne/PA)

Labour urges minister to ‘wake up’ over health and social care integration

June 19 2022

Unpaid carers are taking on “significantly more” hours and becoming increasingly worried about their physical and mental health and how they will cope financially, according to a report (PA)

Unpaid carers increasingly worried about health and finances amid rise in hours

June 8 2022

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said the health service cannot be ‘complacent’ about funding (Peter Byrne/PA)

NHS cannot be complacent over funding, says Streeting

June 7 2022

(Ian West/PA)

Rising child poverty may be behind thousands more children entering care

June 2 2022

New figures suggest more than a fifth of care home beds in England are unfilled (Ian Georgeson/Alamy/PA)

‘More than one in five care home beds in England unfilled’

May 30 2022

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) HQ at Compass House in Dundee.

Dundee care worker drank alcohol before helping blind and paralysed man

May 19 2022

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Matt Dunham/PA)

Hancock apologises for pandemic ‘pain and anguish’ after care home ruling

April 29 2022

A report has called for carers to be paid a higher wage (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Carers should be paid more to tackle staffing crisis, advisers tell Government

April 27 2022

(Andrew Matthews/PA)

Carers should be paid more to tackle staffing crisis, advisers tell Government

April 27 2022

The charity said the Government has effectively cut support in real terms (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

More than half of disabled people ‘depressed or hopeless’ about finances

April 20 2022

Around three in 10 trafficked children in care went missing in 2020 (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Immigration bill ‘massively detrimental’ for exploited children, charities warn

April 19 2022

Older people without children feel ‘invisible’ in society and greatly fear for their future, peers have been told (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Older people without children feel ‘invisible’ and fear for future, peers told

April 7 2022

There are 1,800 funded places for the new introduction course (College Development Network)

Scottish colleges provide 1,800 places for course to help boost number of carers

April 7 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he has ‘absolutely no problem’ with increasing national insurance for millions of workers in order to fund the NHS and social care (Frank Augstein/PA)

Johnson says putting up tax to fund NHS is ‘unquestionably right’

April 6 2022

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (James Manning/PA)

Javid defends national insurance rise: ‘Morally wrong to let our children pay’

April 6 2022

Allied Healthcare has been ordered to pay a former employee more than £6,500

Dundee care worker sacked after maternity leave ended awarded £6.5k

February 4 2022

Fife Health and Social Care Partnership is looking for additional support

Fife

Urgent plea for carers in Fife as services are ‘tested like never before’

January 25 2022

Covid: Self-isolation rules at Tayside and Fife care homes relaxed

January 20 2022

dundee care home young people vulnerable

Plans for vulnerable young person’s home in Dundee approved

December 14 2021

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