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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.