The breakdown of traditional family units, with fewer grandparents, aunts and uncles around for children to talk to about their problems, is behind a surge in mental health issues among
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The number of children needing treatment for addiction to tranquilisers has almost doubled, figures show. In 2016, 161 children under the age of 18 accessed public treatment services for benzodiazepine
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Indefinite detention of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants “should put us to shame”, a Labour MP has said. Tulip Siddiq (pictured) told MPs that detaining people indefinitely was a “blight
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Care for autistic children is “not good enough”, ministers have said, as they launched a review into the Government’s autism strategy. Care Minister Caroline Dinenage (pictured) said that many autistic
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A total of 221 young Scots have been waiting more than a year for specialist help with mental health problems, new figures have shown. NHS statistics also disclosed there were
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The UK’s housing crisis will be “felt across a generation” as the latest figures reveal the scale of children living in homelessness, a charity has warned. Shelter urged the public
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Two fifths of health visitors fear that they are “so stretched” that avoidable tragedies involving children could occur, a new poll suggests. A new poll of 1,200 health visitors in
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Three missing people have been reunited with their families in time for Christmas after their faces were displayed on posters on the backpacks of Deliveroo riders. Five hundred of the
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Thousands of vulnerable young people will be homeless or at risk of homelessness in the weeks leading up to Christmas, a charity has said. Centrepoint said 18,000 young people aged
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Thousands of child refugees should be allowed into Britain to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport rescue scheme, peers have been told. Labour’s Lord Dubs said 10,000 unaccompanied child
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