More people are sleeping rough on the streets of England than at any point this decade, new figures suggest. Local authorities estimated there were around 4,751 rough sleepers on a
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Manchester has become the second local authority in England to vote to ban anti-abortion protests outside clinics. Councillors in the city agreed on Wednesday to “take all necessary actions within
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Health chiefs are pressing ahead with plans to deliver a treatment centre for heroin addicts in the hope of tackling a city’s drug problems. Glasgow City Health and Social Care
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Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) has awarded a contract worth £1.4million to Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) to deliver a ‘Link Worker’ resource to the city
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Adoption has been a particularly politicised and contentious area of public policy in recent years in the UK, perhaps most particularly in England. Political and ideological perspectives on adoption drive
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Council social services bosses must think long and hard before trying to take severely-disabled children from the care of their parents, the most senior family court judge in England and
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A council has been criticised for erecting posters that make passers-by “suspicious of homeless people”. The poster, by Gloucester City Council, states: “Are you really helping homeless people? “In some
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The introduction of what is believed to be the UK’s first ever buffer zone to stop anti-abortion protesters from gathering outside an abortion clinic has come a step closer. A
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Councils have warned of a rise in the number of potential modern slavery victims identified as they called on the public to act as the “first line of defence” in
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Cuts to the public health budget mean smokers in many areas can no longer access stop smoking medications from their GP, health experts have warned. There is now at least
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