MP calls for end to pay ‘scandal’ involving care workers
Too many care workers are being “treated shabbily” in a sector where the zero hours culture is “deeply entrenched”, a Labour MP has warned. Andrew Smith branded it a “scandal”
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Children’s mental health services ‘ten years behind’
A growing number of vulnerable young people are being put at risk because of “serious and deeply ingrained problems” in children’s mental health services, a critical report by the Health
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New report finds poverty figures much worse than expected
Thousands more people could be living in poverty than has previously been thought, a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned. Poorer households have been harder-hit by the
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Government name preferred Children’s Commissioner candidate
Charity boss Anne Longfield has been named as the Government’s preferred candidate to become the next children’s commissioner. In a letter to the cross-party Commons education select committee, Education Secretary
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New survey reveals care work as most fulfilling profession
British workers across all sectors regard social care as the most fulfilling profession to work in – and social workers themselves agree – according to a survey carried out by
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May apologises to abuse survivors over government abuse probe
Theresa May has apologised following the resignation last week of the second chairwoman of the inquiry into historical allegations of child sex abuse. The Home Secretary said the first meeting
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BMA report slams child protection in criminal justice
Hundreds of children in custody were already among the “most vulnerable individuals in our society” before they were jailed, and have been continually let down by agencies whose job it
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Savile victims await court decision on compensation
Scores of women who say they were sexually abused by television personality Jimmy Savile are waiting for the result of a Court of Appeal fight which might affect the future
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Workers ‘profoundly troubled’ over end-of-life care wishes
A third of nurses have been unable to fulfil their patients’ dying wishes because they do not have enough time, according to a survey. Many healthcare workers are “profoundly troubled”
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Homeless children suffering severe emotional distress
Some 90,000 children will wake up homeless this Christmas in Britain, equating to three children for every school in the country, according to a report from Shelter. An investigation by
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