No evidence of organised attempts by the Home Office to conceal child abuse has been found by a key review into the department’s handling of historic allegations. The review by
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Charity 4Children has set out plans to create new Children and Family Hubs in every disadvantaged locality – building on and extending the approach to integrated support pioneered in Sure
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Social worker Gloria Foster has been struck off the HCPC Register for repeated failings amounting to misconduct whilst employed by Essex County Council. A panel of the HCPC Conduct and
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Disability campaigners have voiced concern about an attempt to change the law on assisted dying as the legislation faced its latest parliamentary hurdle. But supporters of a change claimed opponents
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A review into how the Home Office handled historic child sex abuse allegations at Westminster in the 1980s has been unable to uncover crucial missing files, it is reported. BBC
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At a summit today in London, GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and pharmacists are calling for binding national “rollback” targets on antibiotic prescribing to halt the relentless rise in antibiotic resistance.
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The public backs the principle of state-assisted suicide for the terminally ill but has serious concerns that in practice the system would be open to abuse, put undue pressure on
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The UK will fail to meet international commitments on reducing deaths from preventable diseases unless it prioritises the prevention of ill health, a group of leading charities has warned. In
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Nearly a fifth of young people in the UK have slept rough in the past year, according to a poll by a youth homelessness charity. It revealed that 18% of
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Fresh abuse allegations against disgraced TV and radio presenter Jimmy Savile have been made in relation to 12 NHS Trusts. The NHS Legacy Unit, which provides oversight of NHS investigations
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