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• International Women’s Day a reminder that women bear the brunt of Government’s inaction on social care

  10-03-2019 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Age UK is warning that it is women who are generally paying the highest price for the Government’s continued inaction on social care. ‘Sandwich carers’ – those caring for one or more under-16 as well as a parent or other older relative with care needs – are one of the groups hit hardest of all […]
  
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• Watchdog rebuked after charity escaped prosecution over care home abuse

  10-03-2019 13:35
  CQC fined National Autistic Society £4,000 over situation at Mendip HouseThe health and social care regulator has been heavily criticised for only issuing a fixed penalty notice to a charity that ran a care home where autistic people were taunted, bullied and humiliated.Barbara Keeley, the shadow minister for mental health and social care, has written to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to express deep concern that it fined the National Autistic Society (NAS) £4,000. Continue readin
  
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• CQC rebuked for failure to prosecute charity over care home abuse

  10-03-2019 13:35
  Watchdog fined National Autistic Society £4,000 over situation at Mendip HouseThe health and social care regulator has been heavily criticised for issuing only a fixed penalty notice to a charity that ran a care home where autistic people were taunted, bullied and humiliated.Barbara Keeley, the shadow minister for mental health and social care, has written to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to express deep concern that it fined the National Autistic Society (NAS) £4,000. Continue r
  
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• I’m shocked by those who still won’t accept Michael Jackson as abuser | Dan Reed

  10-03-2019 09:00
  The director of Leaving Neverland on the polarised reaction to his landmark filmLeaving Neverland has been seen by his many wild-eyed defenders as a “j’accuse” aimed at the legacy of Michael Jackson. It is not. It is a detailed, four-hour study of the psychology of child sexual abuse, told through two ordinary families who were groomed for 20 years by a paedophile masquerading as a trusted friend. It’s a mask that is often used by predators, whether a priest, a teacher, a
  
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• The Observer view on the callous cuts to school funding | Observer editorial

  10-03-2019 06:59
  The cruel economics of austerity is taking its toll on those pupils most in need and most at riskThree months ago, the education minister Lord Agnew offered to bet any headteacher “a bottle of champagne and a letter of commendation” that he could find wasteful spending in their school. It was a crass, tin-eared remark to make at a time when some schools are closing early on a Friday to save money.The government’s response to concerns about declining school funding has been tone
  
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