Security will be “enhanced” at the secure mental unit where Sharon Wall was killed, with its boss admitting staff have “no idea” where killer Ryan Matthews got his murder weapon.
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The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that continued underfunding of social care is likely to have ongoing consequences for the NHS. Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the LGA’s Community
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A psychiatric hospital patient will be sentenced today for murdering a healthcare assistant while she worked at the unit. Ryan Matthews, 62, fatally stabbed grandmother Sharon Wall (pictured) at Wotton
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A paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed a healthcare assistant to death because he did not want to go to a no-smoking unit with no wi-fi will never be released, a judge
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A predicted 30% surge in rape trials has prompted police and prosecutors to overhaul guidelines on handling cases. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and police chiefs have launched a joint
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A former care worker from north London has been charged with sexually abusing boys more than 30 years ago. Leslie Paul, 63, was charged under Operation Trinity – Scotland Yard’s
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Higher costs of regulation and the new Childminders Agencies seeking profits will lead to already hard pressed parents and childminders meeting additional costs says childminders body. The Independent Childminders trade
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A woman has failed in a legal bid to prevent her two-year-old son being adopted by practising Christians who are not a “religious match”. The woman wanted to revoke an
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A police chief has revealed that another 62 police officers are being brought in to investigate the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings promised
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Labour has called on the Government to convene an emergency summit of health, social care, council and emergency services to find ways to ease the pressures on struggling accident and
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