Fewer people are seeking help from dedicated sexual health clinics, new figures show. Last year, 1.26 million people in England sought help from family planning services, community contraception clinics and
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Theresa May is facing calls to “come clean” about what she knew about the problems at the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse after she disclosed she had been aware
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Police failures to take child protection seriously could lead to a repeat of the horrifying abuse scandals seen in Rotherham and Oxford, the chief inspector of schools has claimed. Ofsted
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Peers have pressed for mental health checks to be introduced for children entering the care system. The Government had already agreed to change its proposals to include the promotion of
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The Government will step in when it thinks local NHS leaders have made the “wrong choices” about care being rationed in the health service, the Health Secretary has warned. Jeremy
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Concerns about the leadership of the national child sexual abuse inquiry were reported to a Home Office figure months before Dame Lowell Goddard’s resignation as its head, MPs have heard.
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Inadequate staffing levels are driving midwives to leave the NHS, with some looking after as many as 15 mothers and babies at a time, according to a new report. The
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A ban on naming sex crime suspects unless they are charged could be in place by the end of the year. Former police officer Brian Paddick is leading proposals for
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The NHS spent £25 million on agency midwives last year – a figure that has doubled in two years, according to a new report. The study, from the Royal College
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A severely disabled man has been awarded £2.5 million High Court damages, 47 years after his birth. Peter Atherton was white because of asphyxia when he was born at Billinge
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