More needs to be done to improve education for children who are not in mainstream schools, inspectors have warned. Youngsters who attend “alternative” education settings full-time sometimes study a very
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David Cameron’s mother has signed a petition against spending cuts in his constituency. Retired magistrate Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a battle to save dozens of children’s
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A High Court judge has rejected claims that Birmingham City Council – the largest housing authority in England – is “systemically” turning away homeless applicants. Four homeless people had taken
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The psychiatrist brother of Chancellor George Osborne is back before the General Medical Council after he admitted having sex with a vulnerable patient who had been under his care, a
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A group of 12 men who sexually exploited a vulnerable teenage schoolgirl for their own “selfish, sexual gratification” have received jail sentences of up to 20 years. Eleven of the
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The practice of sending mentally ill people long distances for treatment should end, a commission has said, as experts branded some services “potentially dangerous”. Around 500 mentally ill people every
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The Duchess of Cambridge has voiced her belief that the nation’s children should be “supported through difficult times in their lives” in a video message recorded to mark Children’s Mental
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Locum doctors and nurses are unfairly earning significantly more than their NHS counterparts by working for “rip-off agencies”, according to health sector regulators. Monitor and the NHS TDA (Trust Development
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The Department of Health has announced it will cut around 650 jobs to reduce its running costs. Non-senior staff numbers will be slashed from 1,800 to between 1,200 and 1,300
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Around 8,500 “bed-blocking” patients are stuck in NHS hospitals every day – costing the health service £900 million a year and driving up use of the private sector, a report
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