Police investigate child sexual assault allegations at hotel housing asylum seekers
Police are investigating allegations a teenage boy was raped by a man in his 30s at a hotel being used to house asylum seekers. A child under the age of
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Emergency chiefs apologise after scathing report into Manchester Arena bombing response
Police, fire and ambulance chiefs offered profuse apologies after a scathing report into the emergency response to the Manchester Arena bombing. One of the 22 people murdered in the suicide
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Government accused of ‘sticking plaster’ approach as new campaign aims to fill social care vacancies
A recruitment drive to fill tens of thousands of vacancies in the social care sector has been launched by the Government for the second year in a row. The Made
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Children’s services cannot be delivered ‘on cheap’ as ADCS warn of ‘substantial increase’ in demand
Vital help from children’s services has become “the last resort” for some families in England, with social care leaders warning “we cannot continue to do this on the cheap”. Councils
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Staggering numbers missing out on social care and ‘things have never been so bad’, Adass warn
“Things have never been so bad” for England’s adult social care sector, a social services director has warned. A “staggering” number of older and disabled people are not getting the
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Rishi Sunak attempts to distance himself from Braverman’s migrant ‘invasion’ comments
Rishi Sunak distanced himself from Suella Braverman’s claim the country was facing an “invasion” by migrants as counter-terror police took control of an investigation into the firebombing of an immigration
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Bereaved Covid families accuse Hancock of cashing in on ‘terrible legacy’ with jungle TV appearance
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has been stripped of the Tory whip after signing up to join I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in the Australian jungle. Mr
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Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages among thousands of documents requested by Covid inquiry
The coronavirus public inquiry has asked to see Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages when he was Prime Minister, alongside communications with other senior officials. Counsel for the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC,
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Former social care worker finds ‘healing journey’ in adding father’s ashes to landscape painting
An artist wants to help others “immortalise their loved ones in art” after deciding to incorporate her father’s ashes into a landscape painting. Lanson Moore (pictured), 38, was formally a
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Domestic abuse victim feared authorities would ‘take baby away’ if she reported behaviour
A young mother killed by her “obsessive” partner feared social services would “take her baby away” if she kept reporting his “controlling” and violent behaviour to police, her aunt told
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