One of the UK’s largest trade unions is asking its NHS members if they want to accept a pay rise offered by the Government, or oppose it and take industrial
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People with learning disabilities are up to 11 times more likely to die from respiratory disease than the rest of the population, a study has found. The Scottish Learning Disabilities
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The British Heart Foundation, one of the UK’s best known charities, celebrates its 60th birthday on Wednesday. Founded in 1961 when 70% of heart attacks were fatal, the BHF has
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A survivor of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has told an independent review how social workers condoned her Islamic marriage to one of her abusers at the age of 15 and
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Children in the care of Lambeth Council were subjected to levels of cruelty and sexual abuse that are hard to comprehend, a new report by the Independent Inquiry into Child
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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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