Social Care
Tom Gordon MP has put forward an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults Bill to reduce the deadline for the Government to introduce assisted dying from four years to three. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision have welcomed the amendment. The first draft of the Bill set the maximum time the Government could take… Read more »
The Isle of Man has this morning become the first part of the UK and Crown dependencies to pass an Assisted Dying Bill. Humanists UK and its assisted dying coalition partner My Death, My Decision Isle of Man has welcomed the historic vote. The Bill will make assisted dying available to adult Isle of Man… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Less than a quarter of government funding aimed at giving carers a break to go on holiday has been used in this way, new figures have shown. A freedom of information request by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers showed that in 2009/10, primary care trusts planned to use just 23% of… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg wants to reallocate spending contained in the personal care at home bill to provide a week’s holiday for the country’s hardest-working carers. He is set to announce in a speech later that he would back the switching of £460 million of spending to give those caring unpaid for over 50… Read more »
