Skills for Care have announced the finalists for their forthcoming Care Accolades which reward adult social care organisations who deliver high quality care. The Accolades recognise excellence and innovation offered
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The prison population needs to be reduced if more jail riots are to be avoided, the chairman of the Parole Board has warned. Nick Hardwick, an ex-chief inspector of prisons,
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Thousands of young people at risk of homelessness this Christmas face dangerous choices in a bid to find somewhere safe to sleep, a charity has warned. Desperate measures include staying
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Jeremy Corbyn has written to the Prime Minister calling for urgent talks on social care funding. The Labour leader is urging Theresa May to provide “emergency top-up funding” to protect
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A senior family court judge has concluded that a girl was “brutally” sexually assaulted by an uncle for the best part of a decade – nine months after a prosecution
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Four children aged between seven and 15 have been taken into council care after a family court judge said they had been overtaken by a “current of sexual abuse” which
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Two men who threw a firework into a care home, leaving a resident with life-changing injuries, have been jailed. Donna Stringer, who has learning difficulties, had to be rushed to
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A man who said he was sexually abused and beaten at a south London children’s home has described his harrowing experiences. Paul Annon was put into care with his two
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Only around one in five GP surgeries offer extended hours to patients seven days a week, official data shows. The Government has committed to improving access to GPs in the
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Children are being left “at risk of harm” because of the Government’s failure to develop a “credible” plan to improve protection services, MPs have warned. The influential House of Commons
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