Thousands of parents, disabled children and young people across England and Wales have demanded the Government acts to end a “national crisis” in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding.
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A national post to help prevent people going missing has been created with £70,000 in Scottish Government funding. The national development coordinator will work with local authorities and other organisations
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Significantly more investment is needed in preventative measures to help improve young people’s mental health to avoid it becoming a potential life and death issue. The plea was made by
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More than 500 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested in a week. Between May 13 and 20 police forces across the UK carried out a crackdown
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The care of every patient stuck on segregated wards will be independently reviewed, the Health Secretary has announced, after a report suggested many vulnerable people are being failed. Matt Hancock
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling for an independent review of every person who is being held in segregation in mental health wards for children and young people and
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The Bishop of Lincoln has said he is “bewildered” after he was suspended from office following alleged failures to adequately safeguard children and vulnerable people. Archbishop of Canterbury the Most
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Hundreds of children are locked up by the state in England at a cost of around £300 million a year, according to a new report. As of March last year,
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Child poverty is becoming the “new normal” in parts of the country and rising rapidly in major cities, a new study suggests. Research by the End Child Poverty coalition indicated
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Ministers must take urgent action to deal with the “staggering levels of child poverty” that parts of Scotland are facing, campaigners have demanded. In eight of Scotland’s 32 local authorities
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