County lines drug gangs are recruiting children aged under 10, a charity has suggested. The Children’s Society made the claim after carrying out research which suggested younger children than previously
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Police have named the student paramedic killed following a collision between an ambulance and a car. Tammy Minshall, 31, died after being airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham following
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Minister for Children and Families, Nadhim Zahawi has confirmed Social Work England will become the new regulator for the profession later this year. Speaking at a national Association of Directors
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Jeremy Hunt is pledging to set out his plans to overhaul the social care system within 100 days of entering No 10 if he wins the Tory leadership race. Mr
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Social care is in “crisis”, badly letting down the elderly, vulnerable and those with the greatest needs, a union leader has warned. Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, said the
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A care worker accused of placing a plastic bag over the head of an elderly patient has told a court he held it in front of her face in a
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A retired teacher has become the sixth from a leading private school to be convicted for historic sexual abuse charges. Roger Martin, 83, of Great Dunham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, has
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The Children’s Commissioner for England has said billions of pounds being earmarked for tax cuts by the Tory leadership rivals should be used to “mend broken childhoods” instead. Anne Longfield
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Corporate lobbyists are “almost wetting themselves” at the prospect of the cash to be made from their clients gaining greater access to the NHS in post-Brexit trade deals, peers have
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A student paramedic has died following a collision between an ambulance and a car. The 31-year-old woman was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham but died from her injuries
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