Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, life-long consequences for their victims”, a damning report into decades
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A man has been found guilty of murdering the teenage girl who called him her father, after she claimed that he had sexually abused her “over a number of years”.
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A mother whose 18-month-old son was allegedly killed by her boyfriend has pleaded not guilty to child cruelty. Tamika Beaton, 24, allegedly “wilfully ill-treated or neglected” baby Andrew Cawker in
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Extra ICU beds are being made available in Belfast as hospitals struggle to cope with a surge in Covid-19 admissions. Six beds for Belfast health trust patients are being put
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A new £5 million fund has been launched to support families of young people in hospital. Public health minister Maree Todd announced the Young Patients Family Fund during a visit
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Rules designed to help siblings in care stay together have come into force. An amendment to the Children (Scotland) Act 2020 and Looked After Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 will
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A new £48 million National Adoption Strategy has been launched to improve adoption services in England. The Government said the strategy will aim to better support families when adopting by
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A care home worker convicted of the infanticide of her newborn daughter, who was found dead in a park, has been handed a community order. Babita Rai, 24, was previously
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A woman has claimed that her mother-in-law’s treatment in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic was “tantamount to torture”, and that they were not told of her worsening condition.
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Author Kate Mosse has said the lack of action on social care has partly been driven by the shortage of women involved in the Government’s decision-making process. The Labyrinth author,
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