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Adults

Government threatened with legal action over DLA cuts

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Adults, Mental Health

Victory as government does U-turn on social care duties

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Adults, Mental Health

End-of-life social care should be free, says review

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Adults, Workforce

Call for ‘super-carers’ to meet domiciliary demand

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Adults, Mental Health

Older people in care homes ‘denied basic NHS services’

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

CQC disciplines staff over Winterbourne View case

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

CQC needs extra £15m from government for inspections

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Winterbourne View families seek compensation for abuse

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Adults, Mental Health

Welsh government bids to cool social care fee row

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Adults, Mental Health

Abuse scandal hospital Winterbourne View to close this week

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

Home care breaches human rights, finds equality watchdog

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Adults

Former abuse home residents twice as happy in community

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Adults

Preventing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in the wake of the Winterbourne View scandal

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Adults

Council’s ‘inexcusable’ delays left man in poor care home

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Adults, Workforce

CQC did not check learning disability hospitals for months

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Mental Health

Thousands of cancer patients face benefit cut

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