Stop and search powers should be scrapped entirely after 40 years of alienation, a campaigner has claimed, despite moves by the Home Secretary and police forces to increase transparency. Ken
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All children in state-funded schools in England would receive sex and relationships education from the age of seven under Liberal Democrat plans. The “age-appropriate” classes would form part of a
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Around 1,400 children were sexually exploited in one town over a 16-year period, according to a report which concluded: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse
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No council employees will face disciplinary action in a town where 1,400 children suffered sexual exploitation in a 16-year period, the local authority’s chief executive has said. Rotherham Council leader
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Cancer treatment on the NHS is to get a £6 million boost under new measures announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The investment will be used to fund clinical trials
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken urgent legal action to stop a care home owner from being able to run a Nottinghamshire residential home, to protect the health and
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More than 2,800 sex crimes alleged to have taken place in British schools have been reported to police in the past three years. Of the cases reported between 2011 and
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It is a “scandal” that patients with mental health problems have no standardised maximum waiting times for treatment, experts have said. While people with most physical problems can expect to
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Human rights campaigner and early member of Amnesty International Helen Bamber has died, the Helen Bamber Foundation has announced. Leading figures from the charity world and film stars Colin Firth
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Illness caused by malnutrition is getting worse because some people cannot afford good quality food, a health expert has warned. Figures released earlier this month by the Health and Social
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