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• When will councils start saving girls from forced marriage ‘holidays’? | Louise Tickle

  01-06-2018 16:19
  Teenagers can’t be expected to implicate their parents. Child protection services must be braver and interveneThe 3,500 reports of forced marriage over a three-year period, revealed by the Guardian this week, translates to 22 unwilling brides (sometimes bridegrooms) every single week. That sounds bad enough, but what’s even less palatable is that every such “marriage” means someone is being raped. Typically, repeatedly raped. And it’s the people who are loved and tr
  
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• Cirencester care home staff get into Dementia Action Week with a spot of gardening

  01-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stratton Court nursing home care staff put their backs into the national campaign – Dementia Action Week by putting in a Dementia Garden with the help of its residents.The 61 bed home and retirement village is run by  Aura care Living and only opened in March. The complex boasts a cinema, its own hair salon as well as a restaurant and bar, known as The Kensington and is adding to it with a special garden that according to UK’s Social Care Institute for Excellence can &
  
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• Needham Market care home residents remember the fun of the fifties

  01-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Barking Hall nursing home in Barking, near Needham Market, are enjoying remembering the fun of the fifties thanks to a new ‘reminiscence pod’ that has been created in the grounds of the home.
   
  Staff at the home, which is part of the Healthcare Homes Group, have transformed a summer house in the garden, converting it into a ‘reminiscence pod’ which resembles an 1950s style American diner.
   
  The pod was officially opened by resident Marjorie Abbott d
  
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• 80mph zip wire adventure for 88 year old care village resident

  01-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  John and Natalie prepare to ride the Velocity 2.
  He may be 88 years old, but after deciding he wanted to do something adventurous to raise money for St. Luke’s Hospice in Winsford, Cheshire, spritely octogenarian John Harvey wasn’t hanging around. He was, however, when he rode the world’s fastest zip wire, the Velocity 2, reaching speeds of over 80 miles an hour for the cause.
   
  John, a resident of Belong care village, in Crewe, Cheshire, managed to rope in the care villag
  
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• Green tea molecule could prevent heart attacks

  01-06-2018 01:08
  Scientists have discovered that a compound found in green tea, currently being studied for its ability to reduce amyloid plaques in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, also breaks up and dissolves potentially dangerous protein plaques found in the blood vessels.
  
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• Children in care being 'pinged' around schools and homes, says report

  01-06-2018 01:01
  3,000 moved home at least four times in two years, increasing risk of exclusion and groomingThousands of “pinball kids” are being shifted around the care system and between schools, putting them at risk of being excluded, groomed and recruited into gangs, the children’s commissioner for England has said.
  Almost 2,400 children in care had to deal with a change of home, school and social worker, all in the space of a year in 2016-17, according to the commissioner’s annual s
  
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