Councils face £300m funding gap to help young homeless, says charity
Councils in England are more than £300 million short of the funding they need to help all of the young people coming to them who are facing homelessness, according to
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England’s chief nursing officer announces retirement
Dame Ruth May, England’s chief nursing officer, has announced her retirement. She described her career in the health service, which has spanned almost four decades, as a “privilege”. Announcing her
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Report suggests many with breast cancer are being ‘systematically left behind’
Many people with breast cancer are being “systematically left behind” due to inaction on inequities and hidden suffering, experts have said. A new global report suggests people with the condition
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Rwanda Bill sustains fresh defeats as peers demand rethink of asylum policy
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan has been given a fresh beating by peers, amid a continuing stand-off over the controversial policy. Despite MPs overturning previous changes by the House of
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Nursery deputy manager caused death of nine-month-old baby girl, court told
A nursery deputy manager caused the death of a baby girl who she placed face down, tightly swaddled and strapped to a bean bag for more than an hour and
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Cherie Blair supporting campaign to lift one million children out of poverty
A new campaign is calling for a “united effort from every corner of society” to pull a million children out of relative poverty in the UK by 2030. Human rights
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Parents ‘gagged’ in end-of-life cases hope Supreme Court backs naming of doctors
Parents who claim they were “gagged” in legal proceedings about their dying children have gathered at the Supreme Court as justices consider allowing the naming of doctors involved in two
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Deaths to be reviewed by medical examiners from September, Government announce
All deaths not investigated by a coroner will need to be reviewed by medical examiners from September, the Government has announced. The move, which has been criticised for long delays,
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Hospices face ‘devastating’ financial crisis putting end of life services at risk, charity warns
Hospices are facing a “devastating” financial crisis because of rising staff costs which are putting services at risk, a charity has warned. The chief executive of Hospice UK, Toby Porter,
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Care failings may have contributed to transgender boy’s death, inquest concludes
The death of a transgender teenager who took his own life potentially because of his mental health and gender identity issues could have been contributed to by failures in his
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