Chris Packham to present series exploring dyslexia and ADHD
Chris Packham is to present a new Inside Our Minds series which explores what it is like to live with dyslexia and ADHD. It follows the first instalment which saw
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Care home Covid infections mainly spread by staff, inquiry told
Covid infection in care homes was mainly spread by workers, an inquiry has heard. Dr Chris Williams, a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that
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Child sexual abuse image crimes logged by police rise by 25% – NSPCC
The number of child sexual abuse image crimes recorded by UK police increased by a quarter last year, according to new data obtained by children’s charity the NSPCC. The charity’s
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Ministers urged to launch review of evidence on hormone pregnancy test Primodos
Families who suffered avoidable harm as a result of hormone pregnancy tests have been “side-lined and stonewalled”, a group of MPs said as they called for a fresh review into
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Health and care visa numbers five times higher than when route was introduced in 2021
The number of people coming to the UK on a health and care visa is more than five times what it was when the route was introduced three years ago,
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Watchdog warns Rwanda scheme cost could cost £500m as Labour brand plan ‘national scandal’
The cost of Rishi Sunak’s troubled Rwanda asylum scheme could soar to half a billion pounds, plus hundreds of thousands more for each deportee, an investigation by the public spending
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Home Office pilot that put ankle tags on migrants ‘breached data protection law’
A Home Office pilot scheme to place ankle tags on up to 600 migrants on immigration bail to track their location breached UK data protection law, a watchdog has said.
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Rishi Sunak’s vow to clear asylum backlog caused ‘perverse’ decisions to be made – report
The Government’s desire to clear a backlog of asylum seeker cases led to “perverse” decisions being made, a report found. In December 2022, Rishi Sunak pledged to “abolish” a 92,000-strong
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Border security neither ‘effective nor efficient’ as watchdog slams Home Office in series of reports
Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before
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Surge in number of people sleeping rough in England ‘source of national shame’
The number of people sleeping rough in England rose by 27% in a year, with charities branding the statistics a “source of national shame”. There were 3,898 rough sleepers on
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