More than 70,000 social housing tenants could face average rent rises of £1,000 a year unless ministers back down on controversial new “pay to stay” rules, the Local Government Association
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Social services staff want a High Court judge to intervene in a bid to protect a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited by four men. Lawyers representing
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A baby boy whose father advocates the use of “harmful alternative medication” should be taken into council care, a family court judge has decided. The man had sold Master Mineral
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A council has agreed to pay £7,500 damages to an 11-year-old girl after delaying decisions about her future. Thurrock Council – which is based in Grays, Essex – is the
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Homeless people are too often given “ineffectual and meaningless” advice by councils which treat them badly, according to MPs. A report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee blames
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Ministers should act without delay to prevent a “damaging” legal loophole from putting young and vulnerable people in Rotherham at risk, according to MPs. The Communities and Local Government Committee
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A county council has been fined £100,000 after files containing highly sensitive personal details of more than 100 people were discovered in a disused building. Social care files were found
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Home carers in Scotland are being “stretched to the limit”, according to a new report. The survey of home carers by the Unison Scotland union found four out of five
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The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has published new reports on home care in Carmarthenshire, Wrexham, Cardiff, Denbighshire, Monmouthshire and Swansea. These six reports are part of their
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Only three in 100 children in care in England receive the independent support they may legally be entitled to. If it is in their interests, every child in the country
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