Social care is facing a “very, very distressing situation”, the Archbishop of York has told Parliament as he urged Government action to tackle the crisis. Speaking at Westminster, the Most
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A woman who published “bizarre” and untrue complaints about virtually all of the professionals involved in caring for her sick daughter has been warned she will be jailed if she
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Another local authority has threatened legal action over the housing of asylum seekers in hotels and accused the Home Office of persistently breaking planning rules. East Lindsey District Council has
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Peers in Westminster have called for an independent investigation into every death by someone being detained under the Mental Health Act after the tragic cases of three teenagers. A report
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Three teenage girls died after “multifaceted and systemic” failures in NHS mental health care, an independent investigation has found. Christie Harnett (pictured right), 17, Nadia Sharif (pictured left), 17 and
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A man who was sexually assaulted by a former Durham coach as a child has called for an independent inquiry into abuse within the sport, and revealed he has received
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A police officer has said a 12-year-old-girl who killed herself “suffered some bullying” but that it did not “cross the criminal threshold”. Detective Sergeant Lee Baldwin told an inquest that
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The mother of a housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut has been given the go-ahead to appeal against a High Court’s refusal to order a
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A scheme to give free medical grade heroin to addicts in the town with the worst drugs death rates in the UK is ending due to a lack of funding.
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An NHS trust has “not covered itself in glory” in its dealings with the family of a vulnerable young woman who killed herself after being refused admission to hospital, a
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