Archie Battersbee’s life support will be terminated on Tuesday after a last-ditch bid for the withdrawal of the 12-year-old’s treatment to be further postponed was rejected by the Court of
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The Secretary of State for Justice says he is confident a new secure school for young offenders is the right solution for the UK’s “failing” youth custody provision. Dominic Raab
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A 19-year-old woman who had a “very complex condition” which included a “severe eating disorder” has died two months after a judge ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing her
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The mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has spoken of the anxiety she feels ahead of a last-minute hearing about whether life-support treatment should be withdrawn from her son just hours
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Serious self-harm incidents triggered by social isolation in children and young people increased during strict Covid-19 lockdowns, new research has shown. Psychiatrists have called for more funding and development of
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Funding has been allocated to 16 faith groups as part of a £1.3 million pilot to build on community support for vulnerable people during the pandemic. The Department for Levelling
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The parents of a 12-year-old boy left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have asked the United Nations to intervene. Archie Battersbee’s mother and father, Hollie Dance and
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One of the killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has had his jail sentence increased by three years at the Court of Appeal. The six-year-old’s stepmother, Emma Tustin, 32, was jailed for
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A vulnerable man brought to the UK was forced to work and hand over his wages, stripped of his passport and bank cards and denied showers and clean clothes, a
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Wayne Couzens is still set to die in prison after losing his bid to reduce his sentence at the Court of Appeal. In May, senior judges heard challenges or appeals
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