The head of the British Association of Social Workers has warned against the care of vulnerable people being “handed over” to private companies. Bridget Robb said social work was facing
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Former Call The Midwife star Jessica Raine has criticised the raft of dramas on TV in which “women get abused”. The actress recently appeared as Jane Rochford in historical drama
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A new screening test that tracks changing levels of a protein in the blood can detect twice as many ovarian cancers as conventional methods, research has shown. The technique relies
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Security guards are being called in to help control dementia patients in some NHS hospitals, new figures show. Seventeen of 42 NHS hospital trusts in England revealed that their security
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Nothing was done about child sexual exploitation (CSE) in South Yorkshire because the girls involved were seen as prostitutes, a police commissioner has said. Alan Billings, South Yorkshire police and
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Women in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according to a charity. Save the Children’s
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Social workers must collectively speak out as a profession against the damage austerity is doing to society’s most vulnerable citizens, the Chair of the British Association of Social Workers said.
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Schools are becoming “mini welfare states” spending millions of pounds a year on supporting poor children and plugging funding gaps in public services, headteachers are warning. The vast majority of
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A senior NHS agency manager has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for fraud after she received a kickback of more than £50,000 stolen from the public purse. Julie Angrish, the
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Professional jobs that challenge the brain may provide the best protection against mental decline in old age, research suggests. Memory and thinking ability is better preserved by solving problems, developing
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