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Consultation launched on reshaping adult social care

A major public consultation has been launched on plans to change adult social care in Northern Ireland.

Adult Care Headlines Social Care Management

Care providers welcome plans to reintroduce unlimited visiting to care settings

Addiction Adult Headlines Health

Prescriptions to treat alcohol misuse increased in 2021

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Sustainable development allows adults with learning disabilities to live independently

Adult Care Features & Opinion Mental Health

Feature: Social care workers’ wellbeing and arts-based techniques

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Additional support announced for homeless people in Bristol

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Feature: The importance of language in autism acceptance

Adult Headlines

Action must be taken to meet the needs of an ageing population, says Age Scotland

Adult Headlines Mental Health Young People

Recipients of £5.4m Suicide Prevention Fund revealed

113 charities have received a share of £5.4m to prevent suicide in high-risk groups, including men and people from Black communities.

Adult Care Headlines Physical Disabilities

Disabled people living without home adaptations have worse outcomes, study finds

Adult Care Headlines Health

Health Secretary meets with HRT suppliers to resolve supply issues

Adult Headlines Mental Health

Loneliness puts people at higher risk of unemployment

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Charity urges government to make Carer’s Leave an employment right

Addiction Adult Headlines Mental Health

Study challenges stereotypes around mental illness

Addiction Adult Headlines Health

Proposals for UK’s first drug checking service in Bristol released

Adult Families Headlines

Cost of living crisis leaves quarter of adults struggling to pay bills