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August 20, 2020

Continued severe COVID-19 regime restrictions 'risk psychological decline in prisoners'

Severe restrictions in prisons at times amount to solitary confinement and have created a real risk of psychological decline among prisoners, which needs to be addressed urgently, says the Prison Inspectorate.
June 20, 2020

Royal College of Nursing calls for care for those who have been caring

The RCN has set out a package of eight key priorities which it says are vital for the safety of health care staff and the general public as a wider range of health services resume.
December 23, 2019

Half of young carers feel responsible for giving their family a good Christmas

There are an estimated 800,000 children and young people across the UK caring for a family member with a disability, illness or mental health problem.Some are as young as five years old.
September 4, 2019

Nearly half of disabled people hit by benefits freeze 'cannot afford essential bills'

New data shows that disabled people and people with children were more likely to have gone without essentials such as food and toiletries.
July 17, 2019

Disabled people hit four times harder by social security cuts, finds new research

Changes to the welfare system over the past ten years have left disabled adults four times worse off financially than non-disabled adults, according to new research commissioned by the Disability Benefit Consortium.
June 11, 2019

Family carers work 100-hour week, says charity

Research by the Motor Neurone Disease Association has found that a third of unpaid carers spend more than 100 hours a week caring and nearly half do not receive benefits to help support them.
May 10, 2019

Intolerable pressure and Brexit forcing nursing staff to leave, says RCN

The Royal College of Nursing says every country of the UK needs a strategy to recruit, train and retain a new generation of nurses, and have accountability set in law for the adequate supply of nursing staff, because there are not enough registered nurses in the UK to meet patient demand.
April 23, 2019

British workers putting in longest hours in the EU, says TUC

Full-time employees work two and a half weeks more a year than the EU average, says the TUC.
March 17, 2019

NAHT comments on new measures to support wellbeing for teachers

Headteachers say urgent action is needed to improve the status of the profession and alleviate some of the unnecessary stresses and strains of the job.
January 29, 2019

Working mothers up to 40% more stressed, study finds

Only putting in fewer hours at work helps to reduce biomarkers for chronic stress.