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• Children's bedroom photographs expose reality of UK poverty

  01-01-2019 12:12
  Bedrooms of London exhibition captures children’s spaces in bedsits and hostelsSome of them resemble cells while others are striking because of their lack of toys, space and privacy. All of them are children’s bedrooms, or at least the space they sleep in, exhibited in photographs displayed by the Foundling Museum, in London.More than 30 pictures by Katie Wilson expose the dispiritingly grim living conditions of families in poverty and form Bedrooms of London, an exhibition that coul
  
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• Ex-employee describes 'cut-throat' culture at firm that fines sick staff

  01-01-2019 08:00
  Whistleblower says he quit Newcross Healthcare in disgust at its intense sales focusManagers at one of the UK’s biggest providers of agency health workers are pressured into imposing £50 fines on employees who phone in sick as part of a “vicious” and “cut-throat” sales-driven culture, a whistleblower has claimed.A Guardian investigation revealed how Newcross Healthcare, which made £21m in pre-tax profits in 2017, not only failed to give sick pay to carer
  
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