New legislation passed by Holyrood is an “important part” in putting victims first after rape and other sexual assaults, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said. She spoke out as MSPs
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A number of residents have died amid a Covid-19 cluster at a care home, the local health board has said. NHS Fife said that 35 residents and 32 staff at
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A review is to be held into the care provided by social services to murdered teenager Louise Smith. Shane Mays, 30, from Havant, Hampshire, was jailed for life and must
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The number of children adopted from care in England has fallen for the fifth year running as numbers of looked-after children continue to rise, new figures show. There were 3,440
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A review into baby deaths at a scandal-hit NHS trust said maternity staff had caused distress to patients by using “inappropriate language” and blaming grieving mothers for their loss. The
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A teenage care leaver was left unable to secure a job after Manchester City Council failed to obtain him a passport, a new report shows. The 18-year-old, who was put
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Social workers considered allowing an 11-year-old girl at the centre of a fostering dispute to be deported, a report has concluded. There were several failings in the handling of the
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A communications campaign is being developed to encourage care home staff to have the coronavirus vaccine when it is offered to them. Scottish Care, which represents the independent care home
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Professor Chris Whitty has said he will take any Covid-19 vaccine offered to him, adding it is a “society” and “political” decision as to when restrictions are lifted. England’s chief
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A paranoid schizophrenic woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl with a craft knife in a park on Mother’s Day has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a
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