Funding has been allocated to 16 faith groups as part of a £1.3 million pilot to build on community support for vulnerable people during the pandemic. The Department for Levelling
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A vulnerable man brought to the UK was forced to work and hand over his wages, stripped of his passport and bank cards and denied showers and clean clothes, a
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A judge has jailed a young man for the manslaughter of his grandfather in the first televised sentencing to take place at the Old Bailey. Judge Sarah Munro QC made
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Scottish and Welsh ministers have made a joint call for the UK to extend safeguards against gender-based violence to migrant women. The move came after the Home Office announced partial
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The number of asylum seekers “languishing” in hotels almost trebled in a year, according to a report. There were 26,380 migrants living in this type of temporary accommodation at the
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The family of a 23-year-old man who killed his father and tried to murder his mother have said “something must change” after they spent years begging mental health services to
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A Parliamentary committee has called for increased efforts to vaccinate people in vulnerable groups against Covid-19 as infection rates continue to rise again. A report by the Public Accounts Committee
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Teenager Gaia Pope-Sutherland’s social worker was never told she had undergone an assessment under the Mental Health Act just weeks before she disappeared, an inquest heard. Sarah Lock said she
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Muckamore Abbey Hospital was known as a “place to be feared”, the father of a boy who spent time there in the 1990s has said. Michael Overend from west Belfast
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An emergency services clinician should have organised a face-to-face mental health assessment for teenager Gaia Pope-Sutherland on the day she disappeared, an inquest has heard. The clinician spoke to the
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