Pensions Minister Torsten Bell, has confirmed that he will bring forward legislation to allow the government to develop statutory guidance for the trust-based private pensions sector, providing ...

A line by poet Oliver Wendell Holmes – “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” – feels apt when considering the guidance that governs local authority functions and ...

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All schools will have a legal duty to tell parents if their child has been restrained or put in isolation. But those measures should only be used as a last resort to stop harm and never as punishment.

According to the Care Quality Commission's state of care report for 2019/20, there are over 10,800 residential care homes and 4,200 nursing homes in the UK. These provide support to around 410,000 ...

The draft statutory guidance for the Care Act 2014 provides a blueprint for how councils should implement the legislation in April 2015 and how they should deploy social workers and other staff in ...