Gogglebox star Dom Parker has said he hopes a new programme exploring whether cannabis can help his autistic son can improve – and maybe save – the lives of others.
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More than 100,000 webpages showing images of child sexual abuse have been removed from the internet after intervention by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK charity has said. In
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A senior paediatrician has urged the Scottish Government to move from policies to action to transform children’s health. Professor Steve Turner made the comments as a scorecard marking the government’s
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Authorities looking into concerns about children’s well-being provided a “less consistently robust” response in cases where youngsters were suffering from “chronic poor parenting”, inspectors have said. The Care Inspectorate conducted
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Police failed to record a report of concern for a vulnerable man who went missing and was later found dead, an investigation has indicated. A Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
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The Department for Education (DfE) “still does not fully understand what is driving demand for children’s social care”, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. This comes after the NAO
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Nearly half of unmarried couples who live together wrongly believe they share the same rights as others who have tied the knot, according to a survey. Some 48% of people
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An inquiry into the online abuse of disabled people triggered by a petition started by Katie Price has said self-regulation of social media has failed and current laws are not
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Technology such as artificial intelligence could be used help to identify those at risk of suicide under the Government’s new prevention strategy. The document, published on Tuesday, pledges a focus
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Social services bosses have been criticised by a High Court judge over the way they handled the case of two children who have been placed for adoption. Mrs Justice Theis
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