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• Childhood in care raises risk of entering English youth justice system eightfold

  21-09-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Largest study of its kind in England finds 33% of care-experienced children received youth caution or convictionThe largest ever study of care experience and the youth justice system in England has revealed that children who have lived in care are eight times more likely to have received a youth justice caution or conviction than those who have not.Using data collated by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Department for Education, the study monitored the experiences of almost 2.3 million chil
  
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• A moment that changed me: I played My Way to people with dementia. The effect – the sheer clarity – was like magic

  20-09-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When I started doing sensory stimulation workshops, I worried that playing music for the group would fall flat. I couldn’t have been more wrongIn 2013 I was in my last year studying theatre and performance at the University of Leeds. I was a fairly normal student, I think. I sometimes worked hard, often drank too much and thought I was really cool, even though I definitely wasn’t. There were lots of things I didn’t know, but one thing I was sure of: after university, I was goin
  
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• UK care home bosses demand next government funds 44% pay rise for staff

  19-09-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Firms call on future PM to introduce £15-per-hour minimum wage for frontline workersCare home bosses are demanding the next government funds a 44% pay rise for frontline staff to stabilise the crisis-hit sector and boost a system that is “in an extremely precarious state”.Care England, whose members include the largest care home chains, is calling for the next prime minister to set a £15-per-hour minimum wage for care workers as part of a £10bn a year sup
  
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• Carers and patients are being failed by funding rules | Letters

  13-09-2023 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Lynne Collins responds to a report about Kate Garraway’s struggle to get essential care for her husband and shares her own experienceYou report (11 September) on Kate Garraway “battling the system” to get her severely ill husband the care that he needs. Sadly, after decades of life-limiting illness, my husband died last year. I was his primary carer. I struggled to get an assessment for “continuing care” and, eventually, a nurse who had less knowledge than I did com
  
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• Adopted children also need help breaking the ‘care ceiling’ | Letters

  12-09-2023 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Adopted children experience many of the same issues in education as children in care, notes Kimberly ClarkeTen cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling (Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?, 11 September). However, I would urge them – and anyone who is considering the issues involved – to expand their work to explicitly include adopted child
  
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• Campaigners back Kate Garraway over Derek Draper’s essential care needs

  11-09-2023 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  TV presenter says she is ‘battling the system’ to get support for her husband, who has been severely ill since getting Covid-19 in 2020Social care campaigners have backed TV presenter Kate Garraway after she revealed she is “battling the system” to secure essential care for her severely ill husband, Derek Draper.The Good Morning Britain presenter said at the weekend that she fears her husband could lose the support he needs, and that she is getting just four hours sleep a
  
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• Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead? | Floella Benjamin

  11-09-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Getting looked-after children into university will save money, break intergenerational cycles and improve livesThis month, about half a million 18-year-olds around the UK will be packing their bags ready to start university. The latest figures show that 47% of young people from state-funded schools will progress into higher education by age 19; but the same figure for children who grew up in care is just 14%. This is the “care ceiling” that holds back young people who have had the wo
  
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• Robot pets are a symptom of a crisis in care | Letter

  06-09-2023 18:52 via theguardian.com
  
  There are better ways to support care home residents, such as improving conditions for staff, writes Chris PhillipsonYour report (‘It’s almost magical’: how robotic pets are helping UK care home residents, 1 September) made for depressing reading. Some 70% of residents in care homes do indeed have some form of dementia or severe memory problems. Evidence that they can be helped by interaction with robotic dogs, cats and seals is mixed, to say the least.Much more important is cr
  
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• Sent home: how Kenyan’s dream of life as a UK care worker turned sour

  03-09-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Anthony Mbare found his tied visa put him at mercy of his bosses. He is one of thousands who have come to plug shortages in adult social careIt is a bitter November night and Anthony Mbare is shivering in a car in rural Wiltshire, south-west England, waiting to see his next client.It’s 3C and he has been here for almost two hours but he cannot turn on the heater because the car battery might die. A petrol-station coffee to warm him up is £3 he cannot afford. He blows on his hands, wr
  
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• ‘It’s almost magical’: how robotic pets are helping UK care home residents

  01-09-2023 12:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Animatronic cats that purr and dogs that wag their tails have helped staff at Oak Manor care home in Bedfordshire to avoid medicating some residents with dementia“You’re bloody lovely ain’t you,” said Frances Barrett, as the robotic cat she was stroking flicked its ears and whiskers one lunchtime this week at the Oak Manor care home in Bedfordshire.The resident was one of several who live with dementia playing with the home’s small menagerie of animatronic animals t
  
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• ‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in England

  29-08-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sarah, an adult social care worker, has seen lower wages, more insecure work and years of staff shortages• Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, says TUC“Unless you’ve actually experienced some sort of care in your life, it’s an invisible job,” says Sarah*, a senior adult social care worker who has more than two decades of experience.“It’s an endless job. It’s a relentless job. With the ridiculous pay and the way we’re t
  
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• Exploitation and low pay causing poverty among care workers, TUC finds

  29-08-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among workers in the care sector, according to damning research from the Trades Union Congress.As it publishes its first workforce blueprint for the care economy, the TUC argues that the “Cinderella sectors” of social car
  
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• Families sue UK government over relatives’ deaths during Covid crisis

  25-08-2023 10:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Cases against government, care homes and hospitals relate to deaths in 2020, when patients with Covid were being moved into homesA group of 30 families are suing the UK government, care homes and hospitals over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid pandemic.The families argue that not enough was done to prevent their deaths and are claiming damages for loss of life and distress. Continue reading...
  
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• Children referred to social care twice as likely to fail GCSE maths and English

  22-08-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Research found 53% of teenagers in England who had been referred to services did not achieve a pass in both subjectsChildren in England who are referred to social services at any point in their childhood are twice as likely to fail GCSE maths and English, according to new research published ahead of results day on Thursday.Analysts looked at 1.6m pupils’ exam results over a three-year period and found that 53% of teenagers who had been referred to social care – as detailed in the Chi
  
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• Councils can only do so much without government help | Letter

  20-08-2023 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  We need certainty on long-term funding to cover increased cost pressures and invest in local services, says Tracey Dixon, the leader of South Tyneside councilCouncils are on the frontline when it comes to support services (Funding of public services in England skewed against poor areas, 15 August). Despite the fight for fair funding, we continue to bear the brunt of national crises. We need certainty on long-term funding to cover increased cost pressures and rising demand, and to invest in local
  
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• Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid

  16-08-2023 15:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
  Henry Naylor’s well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgmentHyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mum has just died while in the charge of local GP Harold Shipman. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”? Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice, in the charge of Justine, a not-so-tender
  
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• Ben Target: Lorenzo review – end-of-life care comedy is joyful and surprising

  09-08-2023 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Summerhall, Edinburgh
  The comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring’s reciprocal flowThe “dead dad show” is a fringe comedy staple. But what about the dead not-quite-an-uncle show? Ben Target is a comedian who, by his own account, never quite delivered on the promise identified by his best fringe newcomer nomination more than a decade ago. Well, he delivers something very lovely here, with an autobiographical
  
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• Kinship carers do a vital job. They must get better support | Letters

  06-08-2023 17:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Clare Seth on the need for a legal definition of kinship care and the provision of far-reaching help, not just financial. Plus a letter from Kate GabbThe complexities of caring for someone else’s child permanently as a kinship carer should not be underestimated, as your editorial highlights (1 August). Parents have relied on kinship care for centuries. It enables children to grow up within their family, maintaining key relationships and links to communities. However, changing family dynami
  
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• Golden goose: why private equity is eyeing up UK essential services

  04-08-2023 17:19 via theguardian.com
  
  More state funding and economies of scale are luring buyers but such firms prioritise shareholders, not societyChildcare sector in England ‘must not become playground for private equity’It’s easy to see why private equity houses are attracted to investment in essential services such as elderly care, fostering and, increasingly, childcare.These are not luxuries that can be easily dispensed with during economic downturns, such as the one into which Britain may soon be sliding. Co
  
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• How lockdown may have provided ‘cover’ for deadly child abuse in England

  04-08-2023 17:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Sentencing of stepfather of Jacob Crouch for boy’s murder is latest case from first year of Covid-19Jacob Crouch’s stepfather jailed for life for baby’s murderArthur Labinjo-Hughes, Star Hobson, Finley Boden and Jacob Crouch were killed during a seven-month period in 2020 after being subjected to sustained abuse by adults who were supposed to be caring for them.Arthur, a six-year-old who loved football and superheroes, was murdered by his stepmother in June 2020 after weeks of
  
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• The tragedy of Rianna and baby Aisha: why a teenager gave birth all alone in a prison cell

  02-08-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It was more than 12 hours after Rianna Cleary went into labour before anyone came to help her. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead. Why were they failed so appallingly?The last thing Rianna Cleary remembers before she passed out in the early hours of 27 September 2019, alone and in the throes of labour pain, was a scene involving a chicken leg in the film Killer Joe, which was showing on the TV screen in her prison cell.Cleary was 18 at the time – an extremely vulner
  
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• The Guardian view on kinship carers: grandparents can’t repair a broken care system | Editorial

  01-08-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  New allowances for relatives who look after children, in lieu of parents, are a good idea. But they aren’t a solution to the wider problemEstimates of the number of children living in some form of kinship care in the UK vary, as does the definition. But the figure could be as high as 160,000 – around twice the number that are looked after by local authorities. In a minority of cases there is overlap, with relatives becoming foster carers. But despite their large number, these househo
  
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• Families caring for dementia patients in UK reaching crisis point, says charity

  31-07-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Many exhausted relatives asking for help as health and social care services stretched beyond limitSoaring numbers of families struggling to care for someone with dementia have hit a “crisis point” with nowhere to turn for help when their loved one puts themselves or others at risk of harm, a charity has said.More than 700,000 people in the UK look after a relative with dementia. Many feel they can no longer cope with alarming situations where they or their relative are at
  
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• Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser

  30-07-2023 13:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Brian Bell says ministers have let social care become reliant on low-paid and vulnerable foreign workersMinisters have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s migration adviser has warned.In a strongly worded intervention, Prof Brian Bell, who has just been reappointed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, as chair of the migration advisory committee (MAC), called t
  
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• Letters: Peter Westland obituary

  27-07-2023 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  After Peter Westland became the first director of social services for the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1971, he not only mentored many of us social workers, but we became his friends. He was available to everyone on the staff in the canteen at Fulham town hall at lunchtime, dispensing wit, encouragement and acute perceptions about social care.Jeremy AmbacheFor four decades, Peter Westland was entertaining about his support for Queens Park Rangers football club in his exchanges wit
  
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• ‘Routine’ use of hotels for lone child asylum seekers is unlawful, UK court rules

  27-07-2023 13:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge says Home Office may only use housing arrangement for ‘very short periods in true emergency situations’UK politics live – latest updatesThe Home Office’s “routine” housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels is unlawful, the high court has ruled.The charity Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) brought legal action against the government department over the practice of housing unaccompanied youngsters in hotels, claiming the arran
  
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• Eric Youd obituary

  26-07-2023 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  My father, Eric Youd, who has died aged 88, was a youth and community leader in Oldham for more than 30 years.He was best known for managing Oldham community centre and also the multicultural Greenhill centre in the Glodwick area of the town in the 1980s, a decade in which riots were breaking out across many British cities. At the time Oldham’s community education service was rated in the top 10 nationally.Born in Salford, to Arthur Youd, a wood turner, and Margaret Ann (nee Parr), who wor
  
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• Marion Davis obituary

  25-07-2023 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  My sister-in-law Marion Davis, who has died aged 67 from complications associated with Parkinson’s disease, was a social worker and a passionate advocate for children’s services. She argued that “the voice and the needs of the child … must always be heard”.Her concern for children’s wellbeing was pivotal when she was appointed vice-president and then president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services from 2009 to 2011, and as a member of t
  
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• Man guilty of sexual assault and murder of teenage sister near Glasgow

  25-07-2023 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Conor Gibson, 20, convicted of sexual assault with intent to rape, blunt-force trauma and strangulation of Amber, 16A man has been found guilty of the murder and sexual assault of his teenage sister, whose partly dressed body was found in woodland in Hamilton, near Glasgow.Conor Gibson, 20, was found guilty by a jury in Glasgow of attacking his sister Amber, 16, in Cadzow Glen in November 2021. Continue reading...
  
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• Men want to ​increase care work at home but ​social structures block it, report says

  18-07-2023 14:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Unequal pay, parental leave and cultural expectations are stopping men increasing their domestic duties, survey showsMen around the world are eager to increase their caring responsibilities at home, but ingrained social expectations and a lack of support are discouraging them from doing so, according to a new report.Between 70% and 90% of men across 16 of the 17 surveyed countries said they felt equally responsible for care work as their partner, but unequal pay and inadequate government policie
  
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• Home care providers in England fear collapse over unpaid invoices

  13-07-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  One in five firms see risk of financial failure in next six months due to sums owed by NHS and councilsDozens of home care companies in England fear collapse because invoices are going unpaid by councils and the NHS.Hundreds of millions of pounds in unpaid bills are threatening parts of a care industry already stretched by a recruitment crisis and rising wages, according to research by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM). Continue reading...
  
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• If only the BBC’s critics always cared this much about young people | Letter

  12-07-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Whipping ourselves into a fury about the alleged activities of a BBC presenter is no substitute for the necessary overhaul of our policies and attitudes towards children and young people, writes John LovelockJane Martinson (If the BBC presenter story teaches us anything, it should be the pitfalls of rushing to judgment, 11 July) is right to point out that the Sun should not rush to judgment in the BBC presenter case as it has in the past pictured 16-year-old girls on page 3. However, the Sun is
  
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• Joe Swash: Teens in Care review – the sheer number of children failed by the system is profoundly wrong

  11-07-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The ex-EastEnder is charming, open and excellent in this documentary on the harrowing lack of support for looked-after children. The same can’t be said for the evasive children’s minister‘They don’t come to us skipping and singing, with backpacks on.” So says the actor Joe Swash’s mother, Kiffy – who became a foster parent 15 years ago when her own daughters and son were leaving home – of the children who find themselves part of the care system. It
  
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• Not fading away: why older rockers still strike a chord with us | Letters

  11-07-2023 18:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article about the enduring appeal of the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and others Jonathan Freedland’s deeply evocative piece about ageing rock stars and their faithful fans struck a chord with me (From Springsteen to McCartney, ageing rockers are teaching us about something bigger than music, 7 July).I first saw Bob Dylan in 1966 in Glasgow on my 19th birthday. I last saw him in 2017 in Cardiff, a few days before I reached 70. I’m pr
  
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• UK care home employed 80-year-old nurse who was not able to help lift residents

  11-07-2023 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  HC-One employed nurse at Tower Bridge Care Centre, which was found to be ‘not safe’ by inspectorsOne of Britain’s biggest care home companies employed an 80-year-old senior nurse in a short-staffed care home who was older than some residents and not strong enough to help lift them.HC-One employed the octogenarian at Tower Bridge Care Centre, which was found by inspectors to be “inadequate” and “not safe”, in a case that highlights a chronic shortage of c
  
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• Kashmir opens its first care homes for old people – but not everyone is happy

  11-07-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many fear the new homes will speed up a shift away from the traditional ways of family life where elderly people are looked after by extended family. But the need for care is growingNo family came to visit Ali Mohammad Dar at the care home where he spent his final days. He was moved to the home in Budgam from hospital, where he was being treated for kidney failure.When Dar died in March, staff at the home in Indian-administered Kashmir struggled to find a place to bury him because he didn’
  
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• Up to 900,000 older people taken to A&E each year due to lack of NHS care at home

  11-07-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Age UK found an acute lack of services outside hospitals in England, resulting in elderly people suffering avoidable harmAlmost 900,000 older people are admitted to hospital every year as an emergency because the NHS is failing to keep them healthy at home, Age UK has warned.A major lack of services outside hospitals means elderly people are also suffering avoidable harm, such as falls and urinary tract infections, the charity said. Continue reading...
  
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• Lack of NHS home care ‘forces 855,000 older people into English hospitals each year’

  11-07-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Age UK says acute shortage of services outside hospitals is resulting in elderly people suffering avoidable harmAlmost 900,000 older people are admitted to hospital in England every year as an emergency because the NHS is failing to keep them healthy at home, Age UK has warned.A major lack of services outside hospitals means elderly people are also suffering avoidable harm, such as falls and urinary tract infections, the charity said. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We were inundated’: creating pioneering homes for autistic young adults

  10-07-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Following the success of Linden Farm, the Simon Trust helps families create specialised local residences for their adult children with highly complex needsParents across the UK are forming partnerships with local councils to build pioneering supported-living homes for their severely autistic children.With growing numbers of parents increasingly unable to find suitable, safe and secure residential accommodation for their young adult children – and cash-strapped councils having to pay exorbi
  
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• Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed

  09-07-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Shocking figures gathered by the Observer show social care provision is dictated by money, not needNew children’s care homes are being disproportionately placed in cheaper and more deprived parts of England, according to an Observer investigation. .Over the past five years the number of children’s care homes located in areas with the cheapest house sale prices has risen almost three times faster than in the most expensive places. Among the regions with big increases in homes was the
  
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• BN Care grows after securing joint finance package from HSBC UK and BGF

  05-07-2023 20:46 via careindustrynews.co.uk
  
  A care home group has purchased its fifth care home after securing a joint finance package from HSBC UK and BGF, enabling it to continue to grow its portfolio in the South West of England and meet the needs of an ageing population.BN Care, established in 2017, used the combined funding package of £4m from HSBC UK and BGF, one of the largest and most experienced investors in the UK and Ireland, to acquire Barton Place Nursing Home in Exeter which specialises in caring for hig
  
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• Tory group warns Sunak he risks losing election if he doesn’t cut net migration

  03-07-2023 18:10 via theguardian.com
  
  New Conservatives such as Miriam Cates also say large number of arrivals risks damaging UK’s cultural securityRishi Sunak risks damaging “cultural security” and faces defeat at the next general election unless emergency measures to curb net migration are introduced, a new group of Conservative MPs has warned.As Downing Street slapped down the group’s proposals to cut visas issued to care workers, members of the New Conservatives grouping said that ignoring their 12-point
  
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• Red wall Tory MPs put pressure on Sunak over net migration

  02-07-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugeesRishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election.The MPs from the 2017 and 2019 intake, who call themselves the New Conservatives, have issued a 12-point plan to cut net migration to Britain from 606,000 to 240,000 before the end of 2024.A cap
  
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• The Guardian view on the NHS: this workforce plan is years late | Editorial

  30-06-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The government has finally accepted responsibility for staff. But years of neglect have harmed patients as wellThese are the worst of times for the NHS in England. Public satisfaction is at its lowest level since it started to be measured 40 years ago. Staff morale is shattered, with retention a growing problem. Currently there are more than 112,000 vacancies in a workforce of 1.26 million full-time equivalents. Waiting lists have reached record levels. Against this alarming backdrop – par
  
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• Social care needs a long-term workforce plan | Letters

  29-06-2023 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  The undervaluing of social care is a betrayal of the hardworking healthcare professionals who got us through the pandemic, writes Rachael Dodgson, while Kalvin Morris calls for better-run care recruitmentYour editorial on care workers being undervalued and underpaid hits the nail on the head (25 June). There needs to be a long-term workforce plan for adult social care as well as the NHS to enhance the quality of care and support provided by both. We know that social care workers already seek job
  
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• Matt Hancock says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for ‘huge error’ in UK’s pandemic planning – as it happened

  27-06-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Former health secretary says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death and says he knows an apology from him will be ‘hard to take’. This live blog is now closedFull story: Matt Hancock ‘profoundly sorry’ for Covid readiness failingsThe journalist Isabel Oakeshott thinks Matt Hanock is giving a “typically assured” performance.Oakeshott, of course, is the journalist who helped Hancock produce his Pandemic Diaries, his account of handling the Covid cr
  
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• Matt Hancock says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for ‘huge error’ in UK’s pandemic planning – UK politics live

  27-06-2023 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Former health secretary says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death and says he knows an apology from him will be ‘hard to take’The journalist Isabel Oakeshott thinks Matt Hanock is giving a “typically assured” performance.Oakeshott, of course, is the journalist who helped Hancock produce his Pandemic Diaries, his account of handling the Covid crisis, before she betrayed his trust by leaking his private WhatsApp messages to the Daily Telegraph. She argued th
  
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• Matt Hancock ‘profoundly sorry’ for Covid readiness failings

  27-06-2023 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Former health secretary tells inquiry he did not properly challenge assurances that plans were sufficientUK politics live – latest updatesMatt Hancock has said he is “profoundly sorry” for his part in mistakes that ensured the UK was not properly prepared for Covid, telling the public inquiry into the pandemic that he had not properly challenged assurances that sufficient planning was in place.The former health secretary, who faced tense encounters with bereaved family members
  
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• UK risks becoming reliant on overseas care workers, report warns

  27-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis suggests demand for foreign staff has left care homes and NHS open to ‘vulnerabilities’The UK risks becoming highly reliant on overseas care workers after nearly 58,000 visas were issued for the sector last year, a report says.Analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford found that the demand for foreign staff had left the NHS and care homes open to “vulnerabilities” including “exposure to international competition for health workers an
  
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