Every nursery in the country should have a qualified teacher to help children develop key skills like speech and language, a leading charity has said. Thousands of youngsters are struggling
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Young people living in poverty are more likely to feel like failures and suffer mental health problems than their more affluent classmates, according to a report. Almost three in 10
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Skills for Care has announced the names of their first ‘Fellows’ who have all made a significant contribution to the adult social care workforce agenda over the course of their
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The Department of Health has announced an additional £10 million in funding to a scheme training graduates to become social workers in community mental health teams. The fast-track scheme run
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A man with learning disabilities who was thought to be in danger of being forced into a wedding is mentally capable of making decisions about sex and marriage, a judge
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Social workers are in danger of not appreciating the importance of children’s culture and religion in the UK’s increasingly secular society, a High Court judge has warned. Mr Justice Baker
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Mark Rylance, Jude Law and Paloma Faith are among more than 90 stars calling on David Cameron to step up the Government’s commitment to reuniting refugees stranded across Europe with
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Disabled people are only an “afterthought” for the Government, peers have warned in a damning report that found it was “simply not discharging its responsibility”. A House of Lords committee
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Charities have warned of a “housing crisis” after new figures showed that 56,500 households were accepted as homeless in England in 2015 – a rise of one-third since David Cameron’s
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The chief of South Yorkshire Police is to step down following criticism that handling of child sexual exploitation cases by his force was “inadequate”. Chief Constable David Crompton is to
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