Unqualified support workers are practising in the NHS with job titles that describe them as nurses with advanced skills, experts have warned. A new study found that thousands of nursing
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The head of the British Red Cross has admitted it took too long to reach out to community groups helping in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Mike Adamson
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The agency which deals with compensation claims from victims of child sexual assault is re-examining its guidelines, the Justice Secretary has said. David Lidington said the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
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A heroin dealer who raped a vulnerable girl and was part of a grooming gang which gave drugs to teenagers before prostituting them has been jailed for 29 years. Another
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A “sadistic” man who waterboarded a six-year-old girl and forced her to run barefoot on a treadmill for up to four-and-a-half hours so she would sleep at bedtime has been
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Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled “bold and ambitious” plans for the coming year aimed at making Scotland fairer, greener and more prosperous. The First Minister announced the Scottish Government – which
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) and the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) have jointly launched the new Standards for Employers of Social Workers and Social Care Workers.
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A former Liberal Democrat MP has revealed he was a suspect into a two-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl. John Hemming, who represented Birmingham Yardley,
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Dozens of organisations have signed a letter calling on Scotland’s political leaders to “urgently scale up” action to tackle poverty. In the open letter to party leaders, 37 organisations said
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Actress Joanne Froggatt urged people to talk more openly about curbing sexual violence as she relived her character’s rape scene in Downton Abbey. She said she was shocked when the
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