The NHS will adopt a “zero tolerance” approach to violence against its staff, the Health Secretary has announced. Matt Hancock will set out a series of measures to protect workers
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Examples of potential hate crimes are highlighted in a new national campaign to increase awareness about the “sickening” offending. The initiative aims to make clear that directing abuse at someone
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Care inspectors have reiterated calls for a long-term funding solution for social care, the day after the Chancellor announced a funding boost for the sector. Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief
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Care staff failed to act on a host of warning signals in the weeks and months before a psychiatric patient murdered a grandmother, an inquest has heard. Nicola Edgington (pictured)
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A social worker bought a homeless 17-year-old boy a tent to live in, a watchdog has found. Cornwall Council even provided the “vulnerable” teenager with a replacement tent after the
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An MP has expressed concern the number of people receiving custodial sentences for child sexual abuse (CSA) has fallen despite such crimes continuing to happen on a “massive scale”. Rotherham
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Philip Hammond will announce a £2 billion increase in funding for mental health services as he delivers what is expected to be his final Budget before Britain leaves the EU.
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A social worker has been criticised by a family court judge after council bosses asked him to rule that four children should be taken from the care of their parents.
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A charity is warning of a “hidden crisis” of childhood poverty after reporting that demand for its services has never been greater. London-based Little Village said it had supported almost
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The epic scale of the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Rotherham investigation is in stark contrast to the way the hundreds of victims were ignored by the authorities as young teens.
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