A 17-year-old boy has been charged with 16 sexual offences following allegations of abuse at a nursery in Devon. Devon and Cornwall Police launched an inquiry after receiving information relating
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A psychologist who briefly worked with convicted fantasist Carl Beech is suing the Mail on Sunday over “serious defamatory allegations” that she “gave legitimacy” to his false claims of a
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As part of a wider plan to attract more staff into the adult social care sector, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced a new national recruitment campaign
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised to address the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on care homes as England’s chief medical officer admitted there would likely be a “high mortality rate” in
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British firms are set to send tens of thousands of items of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to Europe rather than the NHS due to a “lack of response from
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Care homes are struggling to obtain personal protective equipment and facing exponential price hikes as they fight to secure supplies for frontline carers, experts have warned. It comes as an
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More must be done to protect frontline psychiatrists in the face of Covid-19, leading medics have warned. The Royal College of Psychiatrists called for better access to testing and personal
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Health bosses have denied a report that transfers of patients with Covid-19 to the newly built NHS Nightingale in London were rejected due to a lack of nurses. The Guardian
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An independent inquiry must be held into the Government’s “shocking failures” and “slow response” to the coronavirus crisis, the Liberal Democrats have said. Sir Ed Davey, the party’s acting co-leader,
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There were more than a thousand coronavirus-related care home deaths registered up to April 10, up from 217 the week before, official figures show. Latest weekly figures from the Office
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