The “damning” findings of the review on social mobility highlight the “worrying” social divisions in modern Britain, MPs and charities have warned. Campaigners said “urgent” action was needed to put
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Hundreds of children each year are beaten, starved and reviled by their own families after being branded a witch or as possessed by evil spirits but only a fraction of
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Specialist mental health services are turning away almost a quarter of youngsters seeking help, a new report suggests. One in four youngsters who are referred by their GPs or teachers
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Lone child asylum seekers and trafficked children are going missing at an “alarmingly high rate” from care in the UK, charities have warned. More than 200 of around 760 such
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease has become the leading cause of death in England and Wales for the first time, new figures show. An ageing population and better diagnosis of the
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The Government’s “shambolic” approach to Brexit risks hitting workers in the UK, Labour warned as it called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to abandon austerity in his Autumn Statement. Shadow chancellor
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Council bosses have paid a vulnerable transgender teenager nearly £5,000 damages after a member of staff breached his human rights by revealing personal information. The teenager, now 17, had taken
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Dozens of children with mental health problems are being treated on adult psychiatric wards despite the practice being banned, it has been reported. New figures are said to also show
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Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi will narrate a documentary about what it is like to have a parent in prison for BBC Children In Need. Prison, My Parents and Me
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NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved frontline staff, a leading think tank has warned. NHS England
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