Many health service staff display a “woeful ignorance” about the damage caused to patients by overdependence on prescription drugs, ministers have been told. Labour health spokesman Lord Hunt of Kings
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Domestic violence victims in Birmingham are being sent as far away as Manchester amid a “national crisis” in refuges, Labour has said. Shadow communities minister Melanie Onn hit out at
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An independent social worker has told an inquest that she did not see the “volatility” of a father who went on to beat his six-year-old daughter to death as a
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Five children whose parents have a history of drug abuse and can no longer look after them should go into care and be split up, a family court judge has
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The family of a woman who was killed and partially dismembered by a taxi driver who was suffering from a psychotic illness have said she “might still be alive today”
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A men’s jail where inmates can wear their own clothes and have phones in their cells has been praised by the prisons watchdog. Inspectors found HMP Altcourse had “bucked the
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Hospitals should make it easier for carers of dementia patients to stay with their loved one outside of visiting hours, the WI has said. The call from the National Federation
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Police have lost tabs on nearly 500 registered sex offenders in Britain, according to a report. The missing include rapists and paedophiles, including some who disappeared more than a decade
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Too many children and young people with speech, language and communication difficulties are still not getting the help they need, campaigners have warned. A new report argues that poor understanding
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Research by a team of academics at the University of Huddersfield has alerted the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to the probability that the number of offenders who
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