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• No plans to tighten care worker English language rules after Somerset death

  24-01-2024 18:51
  
  Home Office rejects call for change from coroner in case of woman who died after ambulance delayThe minimum level of English language skills required for foreign care workers will not be raised despite the death of a care home resident after staff were unable to explain her critical state to 999 operators.The senior coroner for Somerset investigated the death of 91-year-old Barbara Rymell in August 2022 and found that the primary school standard of English required to get a health and care visa
  
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• English councils to get extra £600m funding to ease soaring costs

  24-01-2024 18:46
  
  The additional £500m for social care and £100m in grants follows Tory MPs’ demands for more funds to prevent cuts to servicesUK politics live – latest updatesCouncils in England are to be handed an extra £600m in funding to tackle the worsening financial crises at town halls across the country, after Tory MPs threatened Rishi Sunak with a fresh Commons rebellion.Revisiting the funding plans for local government in a highly unusual step, the levelling up secretary, M
  
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