Children who are prescribed a common antidepressant could be at a higher risk of suicide and aggressive behaviour, it has been claimed. Researchers said that children and adolescents have a
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Charities have hailed potentially “ground-breaking” plans for Britain to take in vulnerable refugee children who have become separated from their families in Syria and other conflicts, the Government has announced.
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Children are often left alone to deal with the “corrosive consequences” of abuse, a charity has warned. The NSPCC said more must be done to give youngsters who have been
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A victim of domestic violence and the grandparents of a severely disabled teenager have won the latest round of their challenges against the lawfulness of the so-called ”bedroom tax”. Three
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Survivors of child abuse within the Catholic Church are taking their former diocese to court after allegations of an institutional cover-up going back decades. The claims – dating back to
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Unexpected deaths among mental health patients under NHS care have soared by more than a fifth over the last three years, according to new figures. The data, obtained by the
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The mother of a baby whose death has thrown doubt on whether the NHS’s out-of-hours helpline can identify when children have potentially deadly illnesses has described the whole situation as
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Managerial oversight failed to protect young people from harm at a facility for young inmates which is at the centre of abuse claims, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has said.
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Jeremy Hunt has apologised to the parents of a baby who died, saying they were “let down in the worst possible way” by the NHS. In a statement to MPs,
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Health workers have been urged to look out for symptoms of the Zika virus in patients returning to the UK from countries affected by the outbreak. Officials said that health
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