£3bn child support payments ‘uncollectable’
Almost £3 billion in unpaid child support may never be recovered, according to official accounts. The money is owed by absent parents who have been referred to the Child Support
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Hertfordshire council awarded £5M grant for children’s social care
Hertfordshire County Council has announced it has been awarded a grant of £4.86m to improve children’s social care in the county. It is the highest of any grant awarded to
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CQC launch consultation on substance misuse services in England
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is asking people for their views on proposed plans for inspecting and rating substance misuse services across England. Specialist substance misuse services for people who
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Poorest families have ‘lost most’ due to coalition cuts
Tax and benefit changes introduced by the coalition Government have cost the average household £1,127 a year and the poorest families with children have lost most, as a proportion of
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Child protection officers probed over investigation delays
Child protection officers are to be investigated by the police complaints watchdog over delays in acting on intelligence about hundreds of suspected paedophiles. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it
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Leicester care home fined £100K over burns death
A care home company has been fined £100,000 for breaching safety laws after the death of an 85-year-old resident who suffered serious burns following a fall. Walter Powley died in
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Prison suicides at seven-year high
The number of prisoners taking their own lives has risen to a seven-year high, with Government cuts to staff being blamed for the growing problem. Fourteen of the 82 people
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100,000 teenagers fallen ‘off the radar’
Tens of thousands of teenagers have fallen off the radar with no information available on whether they are in education or training, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. Councils
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Judge awards pensioner £60K in deprivation of liberty case
A sick 91-year-old retired civil servant who was an RAF gunner during the Second World War is to get £60,000 damages after local authority social services staff moved him to
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Abuse inquiry branded ‘fiasco’ as listening sessions delayed
An inquiry into historical child sex abuse claims has stopped holding survivor meetings amid chaos over its leadership and questions over its future. All planned “listening” sessions have been shelved
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