Many parents looking after youngsters that have experienced trauma in their lives have faced violence from a child in their care, according to a poll. For many mothers and fathers,
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More than £2bn of funding for vital social care services is at risk next year, with council leaders today urging government to confirm that resource will continue otherwise services will
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Boris Johnson has suggested a cross-party approach may be needed to deal with the “huge issue” of social care. The Prime Minister – who used his first speech in office
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The Government is facing calls to create protest-free “safe zones” outside all abortion clinics after the Court of Appeal rejected a challenge against the first in the UK. Three leading
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Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has published new research which shines a light on the thousands of children growing up in homeless families. The report, “Bleak houses: Tackling
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Thousands of children are growing up in “dangerous” converted shipping containers and office blocks in “cramped conditions”, a report has found. The Bleak Houses report by the Children’s Commissioner for
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Families are spending months in “cramped and unsafe” conditions by living inside converted shipping containers used as temporary accommodation for the homeless. Ealing Council constructed a number of the “heavily
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A “long-overdue” review of council tax bands is needed to help plug the £5 billion funding gap local authorities are facing, a committee of MPs has said. In its report
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Most people support a tax increase to tackle the UK’s adult social care “crisis”, new research suggests. Three out of four of 1,000 members of the public surveyed for the
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A significant increase in the number of older children and teenagers going into state care in England over the last five years has affected the stability of the system, the
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