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Adults, Mental Health

Commissioners withdraw residents from Castlebeck facilities

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Adults

Why social care in prisons falls short

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

CQC: Half of Castlebeck services not meeting standards

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Adults, Mental Health

MPs slam major failings in disability benefit assessments

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Adults

Charities launch review of disability benefit cut

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Adults

Patients left in learning disability hospitals for years

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Adults

PCTs accused of failing to monitor their clients

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Castlebeck ‘misled CQC over Winterbourne View abuse’

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

Social workers’ failings left dementia sufferer in squalor

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Adults, Workforce

Complaints against adults’ services soar

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Adults

More care homes on the brink of closure as fees fall

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Adults, Mental Health

Burstow slams PCTs for failing carers

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Cut hospital beds by 10% to fund dementia care, say MPs

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Adults, Mental Health

Most Winterbourne residents remain in hospitals

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Adults, Workforce

Supreme Court upholds councils’ right to cut care packages

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Adults

Disabled people would keep free care under Dilnot’s plans

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