Ten “seemingly respectable” people – including six women – are standing trial at Norwich Crown Court accused of subjecting young children to sexual and physical abuse over more than a
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A doctor who received a concerned phone call from a teacher about a pupil shortly before the boy was murdered felt it did not appear “urgent”, a disciplinary panel heard.
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Tesco is trialling a scheme to give away unsold food at the end of each day to charities such as homeless hostels and children’s breakfast clubs. The supermarket giant revealed
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A North-South divide in the number of people dying from cardiovascular disease is a “stain on the UK’s public health record”, a leading expert has said. Dr Adam Timmis made
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Additional funds are urgently needed to protect older and vulnerable people in the face of £1.1 billion budget cuts to adult social services, a report has warned. This follows “almost
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The term austerity was “hijacked” by the left during the election campaign to “delude voters into thinking that some belt tightening and control of government spending was almost evil”, a
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a clampdown on staffing agencies that are “ripping off the NHS”, in a bid to improve the health service’s financial woes. Agency staff bills
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A family court judge has raised concerns about the “adequacy of protection” given to a two-year-old boy being monitored by social services staff. Judge Claire Jakens said a “worrying pattern”
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Police and prosecutors need “to undertake radical change” in the way they handle rape complaints after an independent report highlighted the “overwhelming burden” on police staff, with “high levels of
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has refused to rule out further cuts to adult social care in the new parliament. The Tory frontbencher said the Government would take “full account” of
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