Two people have been arrested after allegations of neglect at a privately owned care home. The Latimer Grange Care Home in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, is under scrutiny from officers after
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Councils in England are being urged to check their homelessness procedures are fit for purpose, after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found significant fault with a Northamptonshire district
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Four street drinkers who savagely killed a vulnerable man in his own home before scattering his mother’s ashes over his partially dismembered body have been jailed. David Miller, 56, was
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Catastrophic injuries inflicted on a five-week-old girl by her parents could have been prevented if signs of earlier abuse, including fractured ribs, had been spotted, a report has said. Baby
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A Northamptonshire mother was separated from her adopted child for almost five years because of faults in a social worker’s assessment, the Local Government Ombudsman has said. The child had
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Three children should be taken from the care of a woman who is facing jail after admitting conspiring to supply around £800,000 worth of amphetamines, a family court judge has
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A High Court judge says he is gravely concerned about a “vulnerable” 14-year-old boy who has “significant educational needs” and has been missing for a year. Mr Justice Keehan made
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A senior judge is set to open the doors to a private family court in order enlist the public’s help finding a missing teenager, social services bosses say. Mr Justice
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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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An autistic teenager will be moved to a specialist facility after more than 150,000 people backed a petition by his parents to end his six-month “jail sentence” in a psychiatric
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