Engage: New Government must introduce long-term funding settlement for social care
The New Year has brought a new Government and it is our earnest hope that it will bring some long-term policy on how we fund and deliver social care. For
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Engage: Dedicated centre for grooming survivors in Rochdale aims to ‘transform pain into power’
Local women and an ex-police whistleblower are looking for help to open the first centre dedicated to treat girls abused by gangs in Rochdale. Maggie Oliver, the officer who resigned
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Engage: We have to wake up to the access online sexual predators have – Esther Rantzen
Society needs to “wake up” to child sexual exploitation, Dame Esther Rantzen has said, after figures showed the Childline service carried out 12 counselling sessions on the subject every day
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Engage: UK drugs policy going backwards and failing legal duty, former chief adviser warns
The UK’s policy on drugs has “done nothing but go backwards” in the last decade, one of the Government’s former chief advisers has claimed. Speaking 10 years to the day
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Engage: Elderly residential care ‘broken and crying out for reform’ – Baroness Bakewell
A major rethink is needed of the “broken” system underpinning elderly residential care provision, writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell has said. The Labour peer and former government voice of older
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Engage: Sir Billy Connolly reveals effect Parkinson’s disease has had on his marriage
Sir Billy Connolly has said he no longer shares a bed with his wife because his Parkinson’s disease causes him to punch her in his sleep. The comedian, 76, was
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Engage: Three generations of adoption – couple share story to encourage other parents
A couple who have experienced adoption through three generations have shared their story in a bid to help other vulnerable children find a home. Even before newlyweds Bryan (pictured, right)
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Engage: Time to level with public about the scale of challenges facing the NHS
Public commitment in the NHS risks being put “on the line” without greater transparency about the challenges it faces, a new report warns. Research by NHS Providers, the body representing
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Engage: Social workers using own money to make sure families have enough to eat
Food bank referrals have become an every-day part of social work practice across Scotland – with social workers even using their own money to make sure families have enough to
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Engage: Healthcare workers have ‘professional responsibility’ to get winter flu jab
Healthcare workers have a “very strong professional responsibility” to get the winter flu jab, officials have warned, after less than half of staff in some parts of the country were
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