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• 'These kids need to be needed and farming gives them that'

  15-11-2018 16:25
  Care farms can help vulnerable young people develop resilience and a sense of purpose, say social care professionalsJulie Plumley knows first-hand how open space and being around animals can help someone’s sense of wellbeing. The qualified social worker grew up on a farm, and recalls how it offered its own kind of therapy. “The farm always used to put me right,” she laughs. “If I’d had a row I had four or five fields to stomp across and my dad always needed me to he
  
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• Number of children in care rises 4% in England

  15-11-2018 14:12
  Official figures show 75,420 being looked after as concerns grow over impact of austerityThe number of children in care after being removed from their parents because they were at risk of abuse or neglect rose again last year, amid concerns over the impact of austerity cuts and poverty on vulnerable families.The latest official figures reveal there were 75,420 looked-after children in England at the end of March, up 4% on the previous year. The number has increased steadily every year since 2008
  
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• Labour blames cuts as number of children in care rises again

  15-11-2018 14:12
  Official figures show England has 75,420 looked-after children, a 4% annual increaseThe number of children in care after being removed from their parents because they were at risk of abuse or neglect rose again last year, amid concerns over the impact of austerity cuts and poverty on vulnerable families.The latest official figures reveal there were 75,420 looked-after children in England at the end of March, up 4% on the previous year. The number has increased steadily every year since 2008, whe
  
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• Rugby nursing home residents’ hand-knit 1,347 poignant poppy tribute

  15-11-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dawn Hulley, Jenny Redfern and Ros Harding
  Residents and staff at a Warwickshire care home have paid a poignant tribute to those who died in service as the country marked the 100th anniversary of the Armistice.
   
  Willow Tree Nursing Home was decked with a poppy wall, comprised of 1,347 hand-knitted poppies made by the residents, carers, friends and family.
   
  The home, in Rugby’s School Street, commemorated the 100th Armistice Day with an afternoon tea for residents and wartime so
  
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• Royal British Legion visits Tyneside care home on Remembrance Day

  15-11-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A SENIOR member of the Royal British Legion visited a Tyneside care home to talk with veterans on Remembrance Day.
   
  Vice Chairman of the Hebburn branch of the Royal British Legion, John Waggott, visited Willowdene Care Home to talk with residents about their wartime experiences.
   
  Among those was 95-year-old Jimmy Mahoney, a Second World War Merchant Navy veteran who joined up at 14 as a cabin boy.
   
  Residents at the home, in Hebburn, near Newcastle, also attended the St John&rsq
  
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• Children's services: why spending now will pay off in the future

  15-11-2018 09:12
  Investing in vulnerable young children and their families is a smart move for cash-strapped local services Headteacher Ian Read recalls when children ran riot in the corridors of his primary school and told anyone reckless enough to intervene where to go. But Watercliffe Meadow, Read’s school in the deprived north Sheffield community of Shirecliffe, has fought its way up the performance rankings, by engaging with families so that new arrivals are better equipped to learn.“If you came
  
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• Pet Friendly Care Home of the Year announced

  15-11-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Old Vicarage – a care home in Dorset –has been rated as the most ‘pet friendly care home of the year’ by a nationwide animal charity for the third time.
  The home, which is based in Leigh near Sherborne, is registered with ‘The Cinnamon Trust’, a national charity that works to respect and preserve the treasured relationship between owners and their pets. It was named as winner out of its 650 registered care homes across the country.
  Animals are a central pa
  
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• Staffing shortfall of almost 250,000 by 2030 is major risk to NHS

  15-11-2018 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Critical and lasting shortages in the healthcare workforce mean that the forthcoming NHS Long Term Plan risks becoming an unachievable ‘wish list’ of initiatives to improve the health service. If unaddressed, these shortages could lead to growing waiting lists, deteriorating care quality and the risk that some of the money for frontline services pledged at the Budget will go unspent, according to a new briefing published today by The King’s Fund, the Health Foundation and the N
  
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