NHS plans new Nightingale facilities In response to Omicron
The NHS is setting up new Nightingale surge hubs at hospitals across the country as part of preparations for a potential wave of Omicron admissions...
Thursday, 30 December 2021 00:01
Foreign Secretary pledges £105 million in UK aid to help vulnerable countries tackle Omicron
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has pledged up to £105 million of UK emergency aid to help vulnerable countries tackle the Omicron Covid-19 variant...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:13
Government provides extra £60 million to local authorities for adult social care over January 2022
The government will provide an extra £60 million to local authorities to support the adult social care response to COVID-19 in January...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 14:43
Consultation outcome Heat networks: building a market framework
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has published a consultation on recovering the costs of heat networks regulation...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 12:07
Free face coverings and visors to be provided to charities scheme
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a policy paper on the provision of free face coverings and visors for charities...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 09:40
Mayor to invest almost £50m additional funding to reduce and prevent crime across the capital
A new comprehensive investment package of almost £50m to tackle crime and the complex causes of crime has been announced by the Mayor of London...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 09:33
Government announces new support package to help more disabled people into work
Thousands more disabled people are set to benefit from a new package of support designed to help them into the work they want...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 09:25
A children’s social care system that is supposed to protect vulnerable teenagers is unfit for purpose and frequently putting some children in greater danger, Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives warns
Anne Longfield, chair of the Commission on Young Lives and the former Children’s Commissioner for England, is today (Wednesday 29th December) publishing ‘Out of Harm’s Way: A new care system to protect vulnerable teenagers at risk of exploitation and crime’, the first report of a year-long series of reports into teenagers at risk...
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 00:01
Children whose parents smoke are four times as likely to take up smoking themselves
Top medical experts have warned that teens whose parents or caregivers smoked are four times as likely to have taken up smoking...
Tuesday, 28 December 2021 09:18
Policy paper - Identity document validation technology in the right to work and right to rent schemes, and DBS pre-employment checking
The Home Office and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) are working with DCMS as it develops proposals for new legislation...
Monday, 27 December 2021 10:40