A High Court judge has rejected claims that Birmingham City Council – the largest housing authority in England – is “systemically” turning away homeless applicants. Four homeless people had taken
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The psychiatrist brother of Chancellor George Osborne is back before the General Medical Council after he admitted having sex with a vulnerable patient who had been under his care, a
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A group of 12 men who sexually exploited a vulnerable teenage schoolgirl for their own “selfish, sexual gratification” have received jail sentences of up to 20 years. Eleven of the
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The practice of sending mentally ill people long distances for treatment should end, a commission has said, as experts branded some services “potentially dangerous”. Around 500 mentally ill people every
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Young offenders could serve their sentences in “secure schools” rather than prisons under a radical overhaul of youth custody. Proposals being considered by ministers would see criminals aged under 18
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Professor Green has said his latest documentary on homelessness made him realise that he had “no idea of the severity of the situation” or how “difficult it is to get
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A man in his 20s who features in a large-scale police investigation into child sexual exploitation twice made a teenager pregnant, a family court judge has been told. The teenager,
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More needs to be done to improve education for children who are not in mainstream schools, inspectors have warned. Youngsters who attend “alternative” education settings full-time sometimes study a very
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David Cameron’s mother has signed a petition against spending cuts in his constituency. Retired magistrate Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a battle to save dozens of children’s
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The Duchess of Cambridge has voiced her belief that the nation’s children should be “supported through difficult times in their lives” in a video message recorded to mark Children’s Mental
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