Tag: social services

A ground-breaking report from Hourglass, Economic Abuse by Numbers, has exposed the staggering social and economic costs of abuse against ...

In a powerful move to support older victims of abuse and drive legislative reform, Hourglass has announced its backing of the ...

Older people are being targeted more than ever before in new statistics and data revealed by Hourglass as part of ...

For the first time, the staggering £16 billion cost of abuse against older people in the UK has been exposed ...

Charity Hourglass launched its fifth annual Safer Ageing Week campaign on Monday 11 November. Entitled ‘Take Note’, it runs from ...

A bereaved daughter had to produce her own adult safeguarding review, after Suffolk County Council and joint safeguarding authorities utterly ...

This article was updated at 11:30am on Wednesday 30 October to include a statement from Heartwood Care Group Jas Athwal, ...

Nearly all both adult and child care homes that regulators close are profit driven, according to an Oxford University study. ...

The following is a comment piece from campaign group Support Not Separation We are outraged that Constance Marten is to ...

Britain is in the midst of a social care crisis, thanks to successive Conservative Party governments. Staff shortages, increasing energy ...

Mothers seeking asylum, who were forced to leave their children behind when they fled from their home countries, are joining ...

A campaign group led by chronically ill and disabled mothers has launched a 'Charter of Rights'. It is in relation ...

Disabled and marginalised mothers are coming together to fight back against social services' institutional discrimination against them. They're doing it ...

The Canary is excited to share the latest edition of our letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the ...

This is the final article in a three-part series looking at adoption in the UK in relation to mothers and ...

This is the second in a three-part series looking at adoption in the UK in relation to mothers and caregivers. ...

This is the first in a three-part series looking at adoption in the UK, focusing on marginalised mothers and caregivers.  The ...