Victims of domestic and sexual abuse are being granted free access to support websites on smartphones during the coronavirus pandemic. Charities fear lockdown has resulted in vulnerable people spending concentrated
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A guide to help people with learning disabilities, their families and care staff challenge unlawful resuscitation orders has been drawn up by two campaigning organisations. Turning Point and Learning Disability
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Concerns remain over the operators of a coronavirus-hit care home in Skye that could have its registration suspended, a court has been told. Roddy Dunlop QC appeared via video link
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MPs have voted to keep emergency coronavirus regulations linked to vulnerable youngsters despite warnings they introduced a “significant” relaxation of protections. Shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey (pictured) said the Government’s
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The number of deaths from coronavirus could have been halved if lockdown was introduced a week earlier, an expert who advised the Government on restrictions has said. Neil Ferguson, professor
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Trying to understand the Government’s guidance on support for care homes and infection control measures has been like “trying to construct a piece of Ikea furniture with a piece missing”,
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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has apologised to a woman who said navigating the social care system with her mother was the most difficult thing she has ever faced in
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A minister has become embroiled in a row after apparently saying that policies blamed for the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes were based on scientific advice. The
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Child protection cases may “surge” as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased, the most senior family judge in England and Wales has warned. The president of the Family Division, Sir Andrew
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An expert group is to be established to study the effects of Covid-19 on minority ethnic communities in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister announced the move as
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