Young adult care leavers face an “appalling” situation where they can be around nine times more likely to become homeless than their peers, a charity has suggested. Become, the national
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Young stroke survivors are “set up to fail” because of a lack of support when they leave hospital, Emilia Clarke’s charity has warned. The charity, set up after the Game
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Vulnerable youngsters are being illegally placed in unregistered children’s homes at a cost of up to £20,000 a week, Parliament has been told. Acknowledging the “unsatisfactory” situation, education minister Baroness
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Scotland’s pause on puberty blockers was not driven by ideology, the country’s top doctor has said. Earlier this year, the decision was taken to pause the prescription of puberty blockers
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A man has died in detention at Brook House immigration removal centre, Serco confirmed. The security company, which manages and operates the detention centre near Gatwick Airport in West Sussex,
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A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a mobile circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor when he started visiting homes
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The majority of people in Britain think nurses and care workers are still not paid enough, a survey has found. The poll of 1,053 British adults, carried out exclusively for
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A shy and socially isolated man who “desperately wanted validation” when he created computer-generated indecent images of children to sell to other paedophiles has been jailed for 18 years. Hugh
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More than £20 million has been raised to help people affected by the conflict in the Middle East as actors urged people to continue to donate. The Disasters Emergency Committee
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A popular singer who raised thousands of pounds for the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic by streaming his performances was killed in a bank holiday pub attack by his friend,
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