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• The Guardian view on an Anglican cover-up: the church that didn’t want to know | Editorial

  28-06-2018 19:23
  A new report on sexual abuse ignores the voices of survivors and appears averse to the reality of past mistakesIt’s not the scandal that does the damage, they say, but the cover-up. What happens if the cover-up is itself covered up? This is the question that the Church of England must face with the publication of an extraordinary report into the occasion, eight years ago, when it gave itself a pass mark on the issue of sexual abuse. A report then published, prompted by scand
  
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• UN: spend an extra £5tn by 2030 to tackle global 'care crisis'

  28-06-2018 16:52
  Report highlights risk of rising inequality against women worldwideThe world economy faces a looming “care crisis” risking further division between men and women across the planet, according to a UN report calling for governments and companies worldwide to spend at least an extra $7tn (£5.3tn) on care by 2030.Making the case for spending on support for children, old people and the neediest in society to double by the end of the next decade, the UN’s International Labour O
  
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• Global 'care crisis' risks rise in inequality against women – UN

  28-06-2018 14:05
  Governments and firms urged to spend $7tn by 2030 t0 address gap in social careThe world economy faces a looming “care crisis” risking further division between men and women across the planet, according to a UN report calling for governments and companies worldwide to spend at least an extra $7tn on care by 2030.Making the case for spending on support for children, old people and the neediest in society to double by the end of the next decade, the UN’s International Labour Orga
  
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• Ain’t no mountain high enough for Belong Atherton fundraiser

  28-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Front row L-R Gill Kelly, Nicky Duddle, Vicky Mulholland. Back row L-R Nicola Ellison, Kim Calland, Christine Thomas, Sheryl Barnett, Lora Bestwick, Caroline Newton, Nicola Johnstone, Andy Johnstone, Julia Cross & Jayne Hart
  Snowdon was no match for a team of fundraisers from Belong Atherton care village, who courageously battled to the top of the highest mountain in England and Wales to raise money for vital portable sensory equipment for those in full-time care.
   
  The adventurers took
  
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• Roller coaster joy for Worthing’s Sam

  28-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A young autistic man from West Sussex who has never been on holiday before because he experiences severe anxiety is celebrating making an overnight trip to Alton Towers.
   
  Sam Motton, aged 25, made the 230-mile to journey alongside two members of staff from Coneyhurst Lodge residential service in Worthing where he lives.
   
  ‘It worked out really well,” said Coneyhurst service manager, Elvira Panxha. “He was amazing. He was really calm and cheerful and took everyth
  
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• Care provider Oakland Care appointments Iain Anderson as Chairman

  28-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Iain Anderson
  Oakland Care has announced the appointment of Iain Anderson as their new Chairman.Iain brings over 24 years of health and social care experience to the Oakland Care Board and has been appointed to help guide the care provider as it seeks further expansion in the elderly care market.
  Oakland Care operates three luxury care homes in Essex and East Sussex. Their third care home, Beechwood Grove, which is a 60-bed home in Eastbourne, opened in June. 
  Iain joins the Oakland Board f
  
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• ‘It never stops shaping you’: the legacy of child sexual abuse – and how to survive it

  28-06-2018 07:00
  Child sexual abuse is frighteningly common and hugely damaging. But a new project is collecting survivors’ stories – and revealing what is needed to heal
  The first thing Sabah Kaiser does after sitting down at the table when we meet, is to pick up a pen, and write her name on the nearest sheet of paper. She does it almost unthinkingly, and only later will it come to seem significant.When she was a little girl, Kaiser wrote her name a lot. She scrawled it defiantly on the wall at home
  
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