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A review finds there were 'missed opportunities' to help a pensioner in Cornwall who was murdered by her husband Picture from file: Goodboy Picture Company/Getty Images A review has found that there were a number of “missed opportunities” to help a pensioner who was a victim of domestic abuse and murdered by her husband. The 88-year-old woman, identified as Margaret (not her real name), was found dead in her home in February 2017. Now a combined Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) and Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) has been published into her death. This review found that there were...

Stock photo elderly care (Image: copyright free from pxhere.com) Cornwall councillors have called on the Government to provide immediate extra funding for adult social care and long-term reform. The council’s health and adult social care overview and scrutiny committee made the call when they considered the council’s budget plans for the coming year. Cornwall Council is set to add an extra 3 per cent onto council tax bills which will be used to fund adult social care in Cornwall. The extra precept has been allowed by the Government and will be on top of a proposed basic 1.99% incr...

CLINICALLY, extremely vulnerable residents are being reminded by Cornwall Council, NHS Kernow and Volunteer Cornwall that support is available with food shopping, medical prescriptions and mental health throughout the current lockdown. The government is writing to everyone who has a health condition which makes them clinically extremely vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 and who may have been shielding previously to stay at home as much as possible during this period of restrictions across England, except to go outdoors to exercise or to attend health ...