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• The Guardian view on failures to protect children: the buck stops where? | Editorial

  09-06-2019 19:25
  Two reports about the circumstances surrounding the murders of two children in Northamptonshire beg as many questions as they answerParents are not the only ones responsible for their children. Our social responsibility is at its greatest when parents are unable to protect their families – or, worse, are the threat. The murders of two young children in Northamptonshire, within five months of each other, is a brutal reminder that those duties are not always met. In both cases, according to
  
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• When Tory outsourcing and cuts end in fatal social services errors | Letters

  09-06-2019 19:01
  Chaotic children’s services are the result of an ideologically driven commitment to outsourcing and austerity, says Dr Ray Jones, while Joan Anthony says prevention is better paying the price for picking up the piecesThe killing by violent men of two little children in Northamptonshire is shocking and distressing (Social services accused of failing toddlers murdered in their homes, 6 June). As Patrick Butler notes, the context for children’s services in the county was of disarray wit
  
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• Revealed: 6,000 residential care workers suffer violent attacks

  09-06-2019 08:00
  Injuries include loss of sight and brain damage, says unionCare workers suffered more than 6,000 violent attacks during the last five years, shocking new figures reveal. Workers on the front line report that almost all would have been perpetrated by residents in their care, many of whom have mental health conditions.The statistics, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, are being released by the GMB union that represents care workers, ahead of its annual congress, which begins
  
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