Childcare worker struck off after firearms incident
A registered residential child care worker has been struck off after taking guns into a Monmouthshire home and letting two young people fire them. James John Gurie’s removal from the
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£700K to improve oral health of elderly in Welsh care homes
New funding to improve the oral health of older people living in care homes has been announced by Deputy Minister for Health Vaughan Gething. The £700,000 investment over the next
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Jolie opens academic centre tackling violence against women
Angelina Jolie has said “there is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished” as she opened the UK’s first academic centre on women,
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Trips to hire overseas nurses increase ninefold
The number of hospitals sending scouting parties abroad in a bid to hire nurses is nine times higher than two years ago, new figures suggest. The data, obtained by the
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Children sent to jail more likely to commit sex offences
Children who are sent to jail could be more likely to commit sex offences later in life, prison reform campaigners have warned. A report by the Commission on Sex in
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New research claims 160,000 care workers subject to ‘wage theft’
Around 160,000 care workers are being paid less than the national minimum wage, each losing out on an average of £815 a year, a new study has revealed. Research by
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45 trafficking victims discovered in Northern Ireland
Forty-five potential trafficking victims were discovered in Northern Ireland last year. They claimed they were subjected to domestic servitude, labour or sexual exploitation, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. At
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Barnardo’s issue urgent plea over abuse case surge
A massive surge in the number of child sex abuse cases has prompted an urgent appeal from a children’s charity. Barnardo’s says following scandals of the magnitude of Rotherham, it
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Results published from UK’s largest care home survey
The UK’s largest survey of care home residents, Your Care Rating, has today announced the results for its 2014 annual survey. The survey looks at the views of over 20,000
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Belfast team bid to stamp out drugs ‘online supermarket’
There is a virtual “supermarket” for legal high drugs where abusers in Northern Ireland can access whatever they want, the head of Belfast’s effort to stamp out the threat has
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