A woman has won a family court fight for the return of her two-year-old son despite social workers’ concerns about the implications of a Christmas Day “drunken sexual escapade” with
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A detective working in a child abuse investigation unit has appeared in court accused of a string of child sex offences, including alleged attacks on an eight-year-old girl. Detective Constable
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George Osborne has “declared war on the disabled” by slashing benefits, Jeremy Corbyn said as a Conservative campaigner closed down a party-linked website in protest. The Budget confirmed that £1.3
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At least 2,000 places will be created to help rough sleepers leave hostels under moves to tackle the UK’s rising homeless crisis. Most of a £115 million package will be
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Lost memories banished by Alzheimer’s can in theory be rescued by stimulating nerve cells to grow new connections, a study has shown. The proof-of-concept research, conducted in mice, raises the
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The daughter of a vulnerable man who suffered safeguarding failings has finally reached a civil settlement with a council nearly seven years after his death. Ian Sunter, who has Alzheimer’s,
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More than a quarter of young people would turn to the internet first if they were upset or had a problem, according to a new survey. Children as young as
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A senior family court judge has said the way a council handled proceedings relating to the care of two brothers was “reprehensible”. Mr Justice Newton – who is based in
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Social workers discussed taking a toddler into care when it emerged the stepfather had reportedly threatened to torch the family flat, less than a month before the child is said
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The parents of an autistic teenager who has endured a six-month “jail sentence” in a psychiatric ward have slammed his “inhumane” treatment, calling it an “abuse” of his human rights.
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