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• Chronic inflammation in middle age may lead to thinking and memory problems later

  13-02-2019 22:05
  People who have chronic inflammation in middle-age may develop problems with thinking and memory in the decades leading up to old age.
  
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• PTSD alone didn't increase heart disease risk in veterans with PTSD

  13-02-2019 14:16
  Coexisting medical conditions, psychiatric disorders, heavy smoking and illicit drug use may explain the increased risk for heart disease among veterans with PTSD.
  
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• Project Builds Relationships at Canterbury Care Home

  13-02-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A community volunteer project between Canterbury Christ Church University and Connors House Residential Care Home is helping to develop relationships between the old and young. Twenty-one year old Kathryn Jeffery and 19-year-old Charlotte Ried-Linger, both second year students at Canterbury Christ Church University, have taken on a community project as part of their Occupational Therapy […]
  
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• CQC Chief Executive praises Greater Manchester Care Village

  13-02-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Ian Trenholm, praised the best practice demonstrated at a Greater Manchester care village, recently awarded the inspectorate’s highest ‘outstanding’ rating by CQC inspectors, when he toured Belong Atherton, which is amongst only 2% of care facilities achieving the rating nationally. Trenholm, who took over at the helm […]
  
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• Employment rights for foster carers are essential to give children stability | Sarah Anderson

  13-02-2019 10:07
  We need legal recognition as workers if we are to give the children in our care the security they need Last week a fellow foster care worker came to me, desperate for help. They had been repeatedly forced to use a food bank in order to provide for the child in their care. The Fostering Network’s bleak State of the Nation report therefore came as no surprise, bar one comment: “a crisis is looming”. To those of us working as foster care workers, it is all too clear that this cris
  
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• Shropshire based home care company warns of an ‘imminent crisis’ in the care sector

  13-02-2019 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Director of Bluebird Care Shropshire, based in Shrewsbury, is warning of an imminent ‘care crisis’ and pledges to recruit up to 100 new care staff over the next 12 months to help. Such is the shortage of carers across the country, who are potentially put off a career in care due to “stigmas around […]
  
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• Breast-ironing: UK government vows to tackle abusive practice

  13-02-2019 09:09
  Home Office says ritual is child abuse and should be prosecuted under assault lawsRevealed: ‘dozens’ of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK
  The government has vowed to confront the practice of breast-ironing, calling it child abuse and saying the police should prosecute offenders under assault laws.In a written parliamentary statement following Guardian revelations that the abusive practice was spreading in the UK, the Home Office said it was committed to challenging the cultural
  
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• Gambling ads to be banned from child-friendly sites and games

  13-02-2019 01:01
  New rules also prohibit celebrities who look under-25 from appearing in promotionsGambling adverts will no longer be allowed to appear on websites or in computer games that are popular with children, under new rules designed to stop irresponsible gambling.Bookmakers will be required to use every targeting tool possible to ensure online gambling promotions are not seen by under-18s. They will also have to avoid placing gambling adverts on parts of websites that are popular with children, and stop
  
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