21/10/2020 - 08:39
Skills for Care has found that the adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day.
21/10/2020 - 08:26
Nearly a million children living in areas that are subject to coronavirus restrictions are set to lose access to free school meals over the holidays.
20/10/2020 - 09:48
Family carers are going without crucial services, whilst providing many hours of additional care for loved ones with increasing needs.
19/10/2020 - 13:05
Mark Drakeford has announced that Wales will go into a national ‘firebreak’ lockdown from 23 October until 9 November.
16/10/2020 - 12:44
The CQC has warned that an under pressure social care sector is ‘fragile’ heading into a second wave of coronavirus infections.
15/10/2020 - 08:01
Labour is urging the government to ditch Serco and let councils and local public health teams run contact tracing.
14/10/2020 - 09:16
Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has called for a short lockdown or ‘circuit-breaker’ in England of two to three weeks.
13/10/2020 - 10:28
A new report has argued that the so-called 'hardest to reach' may hold a key to pandemic recovery, but are not being listened to.
13/10/2020 - 09:30
There has been extremely high demand for Free School Meals this Autumn, highlighting the hard-hitting socio-economic consequences of coronavirus.
12/10/2020 - 10:21
Doctors have called for clearer additional coronavirus measures, including making the wearing of face masks mandatory in all offices.
12/10/2020 - 09:52
Legal action has been launched over the government’s failure to disclose details of its spending on contracts related to the coronavirus pandemic.
12/10/2020 - 08:45
Plans to hand greater control of Covid-19 contact tracing to town halls will come too late, say public health officials.
09/10/2020 - 09:25
Only half of teachers say their school can offer pupils on-site mental health counselling in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
08/10/2020 - 11:16
Four Core City UK leaders and mayors have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock calling for a local approach to bring down infection rates.
08/10/2020 - 08:10
Local councils will receive additional funding to step up their enforcement of coronavirus rules to help tackle a rise in infections.
