A 13-year-old girl with learning difficulties has been taken from the care of a social worker after a family court judge heard that social services staff had raised welfare concerns.
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A spina bifida sufferer and a couple who look after a grandson with severe disabilities have won rulings at the UK’s highest court over the controversial so-called “bedroom tax”. Supreme
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A senior MP has hit out at the “disgraceful” refusal of the former chair of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse to appear before a Commons committee. Yvette Cooper,
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Youth worker Jayne Senior, whose revelations about child sexual exploitation in Rotherham helped expose a scandal that shocked the nation, will be awarded an MBE by the Queen today. Mrs
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Scotland Yard made “numerous errors” in its doomed investigation into VIP paedophile allegations, a highly critical report has found. Retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said the decision to
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A 71-year-old grandmother given a six-month jail term after social services bosses complained that she had breached orders made in the Court of Protection is to be freed after mounting
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The family of a disabled grandmother who choked to death at a care home have hit out at its owner after it admitted health and safety offences. Margaret Humphreys, 84,
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Families are planning on mounting legal challenges over “illegal” cuts to social care, as a £1.9bn funding gap threatens services, experts say. The King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation
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Welfare cuts have resulted in “grave or systematic violations” of the rights of disabled people in the UK, a United Nations inquiry has found. The scathing report by the UN
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Almost half of children are living in poverty in some parts of the UK, according to a new study. The End Child Poverty coalition said the problem was worst in
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