The NHS’s longest serving chief executive has been placed on extended leave after an investigation was launched into “a number of very serious issues”. Sir Leonard Fenwick, who has run
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As the youngest of nine children Ola Tony-Obot was expected from an early age to learn a trade and forget her education. But refusing to give up on her ambitions,
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A man in his 20s who features in a large-scale police investigation into child sexual exploitation twice made a teenager pregnant, a family court judge has been told. The teenager,
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Failing children’s services that are putting the lives of young people at risk will now be taken over by other councils and charities, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. Powers
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Age UK North Tyneside has announced the launch of EveryDay – the new name of its professional independent care at home company – an enterprise which helps people keep their
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Ofsted has published the findings of a report into Sunderland City Council’s Children’s Services and Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) following an inspection carried out in May this year. The
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The first National Skills Academy for Health Care Certificate Assessor training courses, in London on 25 June 2015 and Newcastle on 14 July 2015, are now available for booking. The
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Newcastle University, in partnership with mental health charity, Moving Forward Newcastle, has launched a new educational film about shared decision making (SDM) in mental health care. The launch at Tyneside Cinema
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