Up to £26 million is to be pumped into supporting breakfast clubs across England, the Government has announced. More than 1,770 state schools will benefit from the cash, according to
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A psychologist asked to provide an expert assessment of the father of a toddler at the centre of family court litigation wrote to a judge to apologise for giving “very
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A nine-year-old boy said to have suffered repeated flea bites because his home was infested must be taken from his parents’ care, a family court judge has ruled. Council social
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Oxfam has been accused of further failures in Haiti by keeping a senior aid worker in the earthquake-torn country for more than a year, despite reported sexual harassment claims. According
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The councillor behind a campaign about the dangers of young women drinking has hit back at claims it is “thunderingly offensive” and that it takes Britain back 60 years. Sunderland
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More funding should be provided to help prevent falls, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. LGA analysis of NHS figures shows 316,669 people aged 65 and over were admitted
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The foster parents of the Parsons Green Tube bomber say they feel “betrayed” by his actions – and claim they were never warned that he had admitted being “trained to
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Murdered Ellie Butler was so scared of being returned to her abusive parents that she hid under a table every time the doorbell rang, an inquest has heard. Ben Butler
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A sexual offences liaison officer who found a rape victim in his care “attractive” has been jailed after he hacked into her Facebook account and downloaded pictures of her as
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Hundreds of pharmacists will be deployed in care homes amid concerns the elderly are over-medicating. Around 180,000 people living in nursing or residential homes will have their medicines checked, NHS
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