Edge Hill University has received funding from the National Institute for Health Research to review the provision of respite care for young adults with life limiting conditions or complex needs.
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Six children have been taken from the care of a couple whose “fundamental” disagreements over parenting led to “turbulence and worse” in their home. A family court judge said the
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A former soldier who spent 26 years in the British Army has swapped the front line for a first-class degree from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Simon Jones, 46,
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Some parents of children with cancer spend thousands of pounds every year on travel for treatment, figures suggest. Research from the charity Clic Sargent found that some end up in
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‘A trade in people’ with learning disabilities and/or autism has been uncovered by a partnership of activists, families and Lancaster University academics. The new report from the University’s Centre for
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The first victim of the Manchester bomb attack at the city’s arena has been named by her college as Georgina Callander. Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, spoke of its “enormous
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Police are investigating after a baby born prematurely died at the age of seven months while under a social services spotlight. The little girl was the subject of family court
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Researchers want to hear from men who are forced by women to have sex against their will. The study aims to uncover the extent of so-called “forced to penetrate” cases
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Social services bosses have failed to prove that a man with a history of domestic violence deliberately smothered his partner’s 13-month-old son – but a senior family court judge says
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New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help police catch child abusers. The toolkit, described in a paper published in Digital Investigation, automatically
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