Bullying and loneliness major triggers in young self-harm
A recent poll, conducted for Self-harm Awareness Day, revealed that one in four young people who self-harm started due to bullying, with 61 per cent saying they do it because
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Eight held in Syrian charity fraud probe
Eight arrests have been made as part of an investigation into charity fraud involving thousands of pounds intended to help people in Syria. Kent Police arrested the men at addresses
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Miliband calls for ‘whole-person care’
People with long-term conditions such as dementia or diabetes should be given “whole-person care”, the Labour leader has said, as a new report calls for the current system which treats
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New report shows drop in adult social services jobs
A new report from Skills for Care in partnership with the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) reveals a 7% decrease in the number of adult social services jobs
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Campaigners seek law change over psychological abuse
Campaigners have called for types of psychological abuse to be made a crime in a bid to save more victims of domestic violence. Three groups have urged the Government to
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New report shows childcare costs outstrip mortgage
Families are paying more on average for part-time childcare than they spend on their mortgage, according to a new report. It reveals parents are handing over more than £7,500 a
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Mental health nurses to take up police station roles
Mental health nurses will be stationed at nearly 50 police stations across England and Wales by next month. Ten forces – including the Metropolitan Police Service and Leicestershire Constabulary –
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MHRA in call to report drug side-effects
More than one in five parents would not tell their GP if their child suffered a reaction to a medicine, while almost six in 10 would fail to tell a
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Think-tank finds welfare payments ‘stopped unfairly’
Around 68,000 benefit claimants are having their welfare payments stopped unfairly each year, heightening demand for food banks, a think tank has claimed today. Policy Exchange said the figure relates
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Johnson calls for radicalised children to be placed in care
Muslim children at risk of radicalisation at the hands of their parents are victims of child abuse and should be taken into care, Boris Johnson has said. The Mayor of
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