Child sex offences reported in Greater Manchester have increased fourfold in three years, new figures showed today with the number of known or suspected offenders doubling. And the numbers of
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Greater Manchester mayoral candidate Andy Burnham discussed the future of health and social care across the region when he visited the University of Salford. The Leigh MP, who has served
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A High Court judge has asked a council boss for an explanation after complaining of “lackadaisical” efforts by social workers. Mr Justice MacDonald said social services staff at Cheshire East
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Two wealthy brothers who ran a dangerous and dirty care home with rooms like “prison cells” where residents were not bathed or showered for a month have been fined £80,800.
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A report which concluded that senior detectives investigating the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington were “unstructured and disorganised” has left her mother “profoundly disappointed and distressed”, say her lawyers. The
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The plight of refugees arriving on the Greek Island of Samos will be told through first-hand experience in the latest distinguished lecture delivered by the Department of Social Work, Care
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Edge Hill University and Southport’s Queenscourt Hospice have launched a module to teach professionals and those delivering frontline services how to provide the best possible state-of-the-art care. Over 25 professionals
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An investigation has been launched into the death of an 87-year-old man after a lift he was using collapsed at a care home. The man died in Salford Royal Hospital
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No evidence has been found of a criminal cover-up of historical sexual abuse at a residential school for boys linked with the late politician Cyril Smith, police have said. The
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A Down’s syndrome sufferer has lost a High Court fight after claiming council bosses breached his human rights. The man, who is in his 20s, was unfairly moved from the
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