Extra money for mental health services will be included in next week’s Budget, Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander has revealed. The package will include £8.5 million over five years to
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Child sex abuse is “woven, covertly, into the fabric” of British society, Theresa May has warned. The Home Secretary said the announcement this week of panel members and new terms
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Children as young as five are having to translate for their deaf parents at the doctor’s because Britain’s health services are failing to ensure access for disabled people, a report
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None of the police officers involved in the investigation of the Rochdale child sex abuse scandal will face misconduct proceedings. Although one of the seven officers issued with misconduct notices
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A watchdog has called for the next government to commit to reforming the public service complaints system after finding at least five million people did not report their problems last
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Nearly nine in 10 GPs questioned for a survey said they feared that social care services were not providing sufficient care for patients leading to extra pressure on surgeries and
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The key to preventing child sexual exploitation is stopping young people who are “determined to put themselves at risk”, from running away from care homes, the chief constable of Greater
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New laws designed to integrate health and social care services better to ensure the failures in patient safety exposed in the Mid Staffordshire scandal are not repeated have cleared their
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Too few children leaving custody are given the support and help they need to resettle back into the community and to stop offending, according to independent inspectors. Today they published
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A new four person panel, including Professor Alexis Jay (pictured), has been revealed by Home Secretary Theresa May for the reformed statutory inquiry into child sex abuse. Mrs May said
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